Question

Which literary device is used in this excerpt from Book 24 of Homer's Odyssey to describe Ulysses’s happiness?

Answer 1

From research, i saw the same question with the excerpt:
He sate, and eyed the sun, and wish'd the night; Slow seem'd the sun to move, the hours to roll, His native home deep-imaged in his soul. As the tired ploughman, spent with stubborn toil, Whose oxen long have torn the furrow'd soil, Sees with delight the sun's declining ray, When home with feeble knees he bends his way To late repast (the day's hard labour done); So to Ulysses welcome set the sun;

The choices are:
simile
epic simile
metaphor
epithet

So the answer is "EPIC SIMILE"