An Index of Homeric Metaphor

Here is a list of homeric metaphor, found in books 1-21

II. l. 560 ("as seasoned goatherds split their wide ranging flocks into packs with ease...")

IV. l. 489 ("as a heavy surf assaults some roaring coast, piling breaker on breaker...")

V. l. 96 ("down the plain he stormed like a stream in spate, a routing winter torrent...")
l. 574 ("remember the wind that scatters the dry chaff, sweeping over the...threshing floor...")
l.637 ("fresh as two young lions off on the mountain ridges, twins reared by a lioness...")

VII. l. 70 ("wave on wave of them settling...shuddering into a dense, bristling glitter...)

VIII. l. 641 ("hundreds strong, as stars in the night sky glittering round the moon's brilliance blaze...")

IX. l.4 ("as crosswinds chop the sea where the fish swarm...")

X. l. 5 ("like Zeus' bolts when the lord of bright-haired Hera flashes lightning...")
l. 215 ("like sheepdogs keeping watch on the flocks in folds...")
l. 420 ("they sprang in pursuit as a pair of rip-tooth hounds bred for the hunt...")
l. 561. ("as a lion springs on flocks unguarded, shepherd gone, pouncing on goats or sheep...")

XI. l. 132 ("think how a lion, mauling the soft weak young of a running deer....")
l. 200 ("yet stragglers still stampeded down the plain like cattle driven wild by a lion lunging...")
l. 490 ("likehounds and lusty hunters closing, ringing a wild boar till out of his thicket lair...")
l. 558 ("like tawny jackals up in the mountains swarming round a horned stag just wounded...")
l.664 ("like a tawny lion when hounds and country field hands drive him out of thier steadings...")

XII. l. 155 ("both warriors...rose like oaks that rear their crests on a mountain ridge...")
l. 170 ("like wild boars, a pair of them up on the hilltops...")
l. 502 ("they held tight as a working widow holds the scales...")

XIII. l. 236 ("as two lions seizing a goat from under the guard of circling rip-tooth hounds...")
l.388 ("as gale-winds swirl and shatter under the shrilling gusts...")
l. 454 ("and down the Trogan fell as an oak or white poplar falls...")
l. 546 ("he stood his ground like a wild mountian boar..."
l. 659 ("hugging the shaft he writhed, gasping, shuddering like some wild bull...")
l. 680 ("high as the black skin beans and chick-peas bounce and leap...")
l. 814 ("close as a brace of wine-dark oxen matched in power...")

XIV. l. 19 ("as a huge ground swell boils up on the open seas...")
l. 467 ("not so loud the breakers bellowing out against the shore...")

XV. l. 322 ("think how dogs and huntsmen off in the wilds rush some antlered stag ...")
l. 425 ("with the same ease some boy at the seashore knocks sand castles down...")
l. 479 ("he turned tail and broke like a rogue beast that's done some serious damage")
l. 717 ("they closed ranks, they packed like a stone wall...")
l. 731 ("like a murderous lion mad for kills, charging cattle grazing across the flats...")

XVI. l. 8 ("like a girl, running after her mother, begging to be picked up...")
l. 186 ("hungry as wolves that rend and bolt raw flesh...")
l. 306 ("they swarmed forth like wasps from a roadside nest")
l. 455 ("and all in an onrush dark as autumn days when the whole earth flattens black...")
l. 575 ("as the bull a marauding lion cuts from the herd...")
l. 745 ("but they still kept swarming round and round the corpse like flies...buzzing over the brimming pails")
l. 880 ("and the two went tussling over the corpse as lions up on the mountain ridges...")
l. 959 ("as when some lion overpowers a tireless wild boar up on a mountain summit...")

XVII. l. 59 ("there he lay like an olive slip a farmer rears to strength on a lonely hilltop...")
l.69 ("Menelaus fierce as a mountain lion sure of his power...")
l. 126 ("like a great bearded lion the dogs and field hands drive back from the folds...")
l. 153 ("Ajax...stood fast now like a lion cornered round his young when hunters cross him...")
l. 323 ("right through the front he plowed like a wild boar ramping up in power...")
l. 450 ("as when some master tanner gives his crews the hide of a huge bull for stretching...")
l. 593 ("as a burly farmhand wielding a whetted ax, chopping a field-ranging bull behind the horns...")
l. 648 ("and filled his heart with the horsefly's raw daring...")
l. 739 ("but dragged his heels like a lion leaving sheepfolds...")
l. 816 ("they swept in like hounds that fling themselves at a wounded boar...")

XVIII. Could the "Shield of Achilles" be one massive homeric metaphor?

XIX. l. 422 ("thick and fast as the snow comes swirling down from Zeus...")

XX. l. 558 ("Achilles now like inhuman fire raging on through the mountain gorges...")

XXI. l. 290 ("as a farmhand runs a ditch from a dark spring, sluicing the gushing stream...")
l. 659 ("as a panther springs forth from her thicket lair to stand and face the huntsman...")