Which epic characteristics are found in this excerpt from the Iliad by Homer?
And now, the warriors passing on the way,
The graceful Paris first excused his stay.
To whom the noble Hector thus replied:
"O chief! in blood, and now in arms, allied!
Thy power in war with justice none contest;
Known is thy courage, and thy strength confess'd.
What pity sloth should seize a soul so brave,
Or godlike Paris live a woman's slave!
My heart weeps blood at what the Trojans say,
And hopes thy deeds shall wipe the stain away.
Haste then, in all their glorious labours share,
For much they suffer, for thy sake, in war.
These ills shall cease, whene'er by Jove's decree
We crown the bowl to heaven and liberty:
While the proud foe his frustrate triumphs mourns,
And Greece indignant through her seas returns.

simile is the name given to a figure of popular rhetoric used at the behest of literature, more precisely in classical poetry or epics, and which consists of the expression of comparison between one thing and another with a mission to provide concrete with respect to an idea. attribution of the similarity comparison that is to move the symbolic or physical characteristics from one to another.

In the case of the Illiad excerpt shown in the question, the epic simile was used to potentiate the heroic moment and magnify the character in the environment.