The thick tresses of gold with which Vulcan had crested the helmet floated round it, and as the evening star that shines brighter than all others through the stillness of night, even such was the gleam of the spear which Achilles poised in his right hand, fraught with the death of noble Hector.

In: Great Books of the Western World (Volume 4), The Iliad of Homer, Book XXII, l. 317 (p. 158)