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As you can see, careful editing can remove the violence without losing the message:

Next he sprang on Thestor son of

Enops, who was sitting all huddled up in his chariot, for he had

died and the reins had left his hands.

Patroclus went up to him and hurt him (actually almost killing him! Wow!); he

continued to fight him and pulled him over the

rim of his car, as one who sits at the end of some jutting rock

and draws a strong fish out of the sea with a hook and a line--

even so did he pull Thestor, who at this point was badly hurt, from his

chariot; then, resorting to fisticuffs, he behaved aggressively and he died

while falling. On this, as Erylaus was on to attack him, he threw a rock at him, thereby cutting him, whereon he fell headlong to the ground and he passed away. Then he laid low, one after

the other, Erymas, Amphoterus, Epaltes, Tlepolemus, Echius son of

Damastor, Pyris, lpheus, Euippus and Polymelus son of Argeas.

--Iliad Book 16 (By Homer, Butler prose tans., edit by TripletDaddy)