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Which of these excerpts from the Iliad by Homer uses an epic simile?

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Then rushing sudden on his prostrate prize,


To spoil the carcase fierce Patroclus flies:


Swift as a lion, terrible and bold,


That sweeps the field, depopulates the fold;

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