Question

Then,

his chores being all dispatched, he caught
another brace of men to make his breakfast,
and whisked away his great door slab
to let his sheep go through—but he, behind,
reset the stone as one would cap a quiver.
What two things are being compared in this epic simile?

Answer 1

The two things being compared is shutting a sheep flock's pasture and the cap of a quiver, suggesting that the sheep are valuable and not to be wasted, just like the arrows in the quiver.