Which literary device is used in this excerpt from Book 24 of Homer's Odyssey to describe Ulysses’s happiness?

He sate, and eyed the sun, and wish'd the night;
Slow seem'd the sun to move, the hours to roll,
His native home deep-imaged in his soul.
As the tired ploughman, spent with stubborn toil,
Whose oxen long have torn the furrow'd soil,
Sees with delight the sun's declining ray,
When home with feeble knees he bends his way
To late repast (the day's hard labour done);
So to Ulysses welcome set the sun;

simile
epic simile
metaphor
epithet

Question

Which literary device is used in this excerpt from Book 24 of Homer's Odyssey to describe Ulysses’s happiness?

He sate, and eyed the sun, and wish'd the night;
Slow seem'd the sun to move, the hours to roll,
His native home deep-imaged in his soul.
As the tired ploughman, spent with stubborn toil,
Whose oxen long have torn the furrow'd soil,
Sees with delight the sun's declining ray,
When home with feeble knees he bends his way
To late repast (the day's hard labour done);
So to Ulysses welcome set the sun;

simile
epic simile
metaphor
epithet

anonymous · Answer

Epic simile. Homer used it in the Odyssey and the Iliad.