What about just a context of events, like "A___ is rich and has just fallen off zir horse. B____ is poor and is still mounted on zirs.

Thou hast thy brain distemperate, and out of rule.

In two great palaces, from his father’s now middle-aged fellow-warriors king Nestor at Pylos and king Menelaus in Sparta, he hears accounts of the Greek armies’ gale-blown, sorrow-ridden return from the fall of Troy.

slain with robbers