what is the meaning of this homeric simile and what is the significance?
then, throwing his arms around the marvel of a father telemachus began to weep. Salt tears rose from the wells of longing in both men, and cries burst from both men as keen and fluttering as those of the great taloned hawk, whose nestlings farmers take before they fly. SO helplessly they cried, pouring out tears, and might have gone on weeping so till sundown, had not Telemachus said: