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lion in the blood-covered Ulysses simile

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lion in the blood-covered Ulysses simile
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·Simile

A lion that has devoured an ox has a bloody breast and cheeks and presents a fearful sight in the simile for Ulysses.

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like a lion that has just been devouring an ox, and his breast and both his cheeks are all bloody, so that he is a fearful sight
·Simile

A lion supplies the comparison for Ulysses standing bespattered with blood and filth.

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You would have enjoyed it if you could have seen him standing there all bespattered with blood and filth, and looking just like a lion

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·Simile
like a lion that has just been devouring an ox, and his breast and both his cheeks are all bloody
·Simile
all bespattered with blood and filth, and looking just like a lion

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Book 22 · Passage 42

When Euryclea heard this she unfastened the door of the women’s room and came out, following Telemachus. She found Ulysses among the corpses bespattered with blood and filth like a lion that has just been devouring an ox, and his breast and both his cheeks are all bloody, so that he is a fearful sight; even so was Ulysses besmirched from head to foot with gore. When she saw all the corpses and such a quantity of blood, she was beginning to cry out for joy, for she saw that a great deed had been done; but Ulysses checked her, ‘Old woman,’ said he, ‘rejoice in silence; re strain yourself, and do not make any noise about it; it is an unholy thing to vaunt over dead men. Heaven’s doom and their own evil deeds have brought these men to destruction, for they respected no man in the whole world, neither rich nor poor, who came near them, and they have come to a bad end as a punishment for their wickedness and folly. Now, however, tell me which of the women in the house have misconducted themselves, and who are innocent.’ {176}