In Book 9 of The Odyssey, what convention of the epic is Homer using in the following passage?

"As a blacksmith plunges an axe or hatchet into cold water to temper it…it makes a great hiss as he does so, even thus did the Cyclops' eye hiss round the beam

In Book 9 of The Odyssey, what convention of the epic is Homer using in the following passage?

"As a blacksmith plunges an axe or hatchet into cold water to temper it…it makes a great hiss as he does so, even thus did the Cyclops' eye hiss round the beam of olive wood..."

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In Book 9 of The Odyssey, what convention of the epic is Homer using in the following passage? 

"As a blacksmith plunges an axe or hatchet into cold water to temper it…it makes a great hiss as he does so, even thus did the Cyclops' eye hiss round the beam 

In Book 9 of The Odyssey, what convention of the epic is Homer using in the following passage? 

"As a blacksmith plunges an axe or hatchet into cold water to temper it…it makes a great hiss as he does so, even thus did the Cyclops' eye hiss round the beam of olive wood..."