Then the princes of the Achaeans took the son of Peleus to Agamemnon, but hardly could they persuade him to come with them, so wroth was he for the death of his comrade. Many a goodly ox, with many a sheep and bleating goat did they butcher and cut up many a tusked boar moreover, fat and well-fed, did they singe and set to roast in the flames of Vulcan and rivulets of blood flowed all round the place where the body was lying. The others then put off every man his armour, took the horses from their chariots, and seated themselves in great multitude by the ship of the fleet descendant of Aeacus, who thereon feasted them with an abundant funeral banquet.
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I will now do all that I erewhile promised you I will drag Hector hither and let dogs devour him raw twelve noble sons of Trojans will I also slay before your pyre to avenge you.”Īs he spoke he treated the body of noble Hector with contumely, laying it at full length in the dust beside the bier of Patroclus. “Fare well,” he cried, “Patroclus, even in the house of Hades.
Chief in all their mourning was the son of Peleus: he laid his bloodstained hand on the breast of his friend. The sands of the seashore and the men’s armour were wet with their weeping, so great a minister of fear was he whom they had lost. Thrice did they drive their chariots all sorrowing round the body, and Thetis stirred within them a still deeper yearning. On this they all joined in a cry of wailing and Achilles led them in their lament.
When we have had full comfort of lamentation we will unyoke our horses and take supper all of us here.” But Achilles would not let the Myrmidons go, and spoke to his brave comrades saying, “Myrmidons, famed horsemen and my own trusted friends, not yet, forsooth, let us unyoke, but with horse and chariot draw near to the body and mourn Patroclus, in due honour to the dead. Thus did they make their moan throughout the city, while the Achaeans when they reached the Hellespont went back every man to his own ship. The funeral of Patroclus, and the funeral games.
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