Plz asap
“friends, counsellors, and leaders of the greeks!

“had any meaner argive told his dream,

“we had pronounced it false, and should the more

“have shrunk from battle; but the dream is his

(5) “who boasts himself our highest in command.

“haste, arm we, if we may, the sons of greece.”

so saying, he left the council; him, at once

the sceptred chiefs, obedient to his voice,

arising, follow’d; and the throng began.

(10) as from the hollow rock bees stream abroad,

and in succession endless seek the fields,

now clustering, and now scattered far and near,

in spring-time, among all the new-blown flowers,

so they to council swarm’d, troop after troop,

(15) grecians of every tribe, from camp and fleet

assembling orderly o’er all the plain

beside the shore of ocean. in the midst

a kindling rumor, messenger of jove,

impell’d them, and they went. loud was the din

(20) of the assembling thousands; groan’d the earth

when down they sat, and murmurs ran around.

1. in what lines does the epic simile appear?

2. what is being compared in this epic simile?

3. what is the effect of the epic simile?