The Iliad 12.140–154

and Adamas, son of Asius, and Thoön and Oenomaus. And the Lapiths for a time from within the wall had been rousing the well-greaved Achaeans to fight in defence of the ships; but when they saw the Trojans rushing upon the wall, while the Danaans with loud cries turned in flight, forth rushed the twain and fought in front of the gate like wild boars that amid the mountains abide the tumultuous throng of men and dogs that cometh against them, and charging from either side they crush the trees about them, cutting them at the root, and therefrom ariseth a clatter of tusks, till one smite them and take their life away: even so clattered the bright bronze about the breasts of the twain, as they were smitten with faces toward the foe; for . right hardily they fought, trusting in the host above them and in their own might.

Ἀσιάδην τʼ Ἀδάμαντα Θόωνά τε Οἰνόμαόν τε. οἳ δʼ ἤτοι εἷος μὲν ἐϋκνήμιδας Ἀχαιοὺς ὄρνυον ἔνδον ἐόντες ἀμύνεσθαι περὶ νηῶν· αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ δὴ τεῖχος ἐπεσσυμένους ἐνόησαν Τρῶας, ἀτὰρ Δαναῶν γένετο ἰαχή τε φόβος τε, ἐκ δὲ τὼ ἀΐξαντε πυλάων πρόσθε μαχέσθην ἀγροτέροισι σύεσσιν ἐοικότε, τώ τʼ ἐν ὄρεσσιν ἀνδρῶν ἠδὲ κυνῶν δέχαται κολοσυρτὸν ἰόντα, δοχμώ τʼ ἀΐσσοντε περὶ σφίσιν ἄγνυτον ὕλην πρυμνὴν ἐκτάμνοντες, ὑπαὶ δέ τε κόμπος ὀδόντων γίγνεται εἰς ὅ κέ τίς τε βαλὼν ἐκ θυμὸν ἕληται· ὣς τῶν κόμπει χαλκὸς ἐπὶ στήθεσσι φαεινὸς ἄντην βαλλομένων· μάλα γὰρ κρατερῶς ἐμάχοντο λαοῖσιν καθύπερθε πεποιθότες ἠδὲ βίηφιν. οἳ δʼ ἄρα χερμαδίοισιν ἐϋδμήτων ἀπὸ πύργων

Lattimore commentary

With the sustained attack on its wall, the Greek camp comes to resemble a miniature Troy, a defensive site, enabling the audience to imagine the ineffectiveness of a Greek assault on the much sturdier and taller city ramparts.

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