The Iliad And the Odyssey (Classics of World Literature)
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Achilles (ruthful for his tears) said: ‘Wherefore weeps my friend, So like a girl, who though she sees her mother cannot tend Her childish humours, hangs on her, and would be taken up, Still viewing her with tear-drown’d eyes, when she has made her stoop. To nothing liker I can shape thy so unseemly tears. What causeth them? Hath any ill solicited thine ears, Befall’n my Myrmidons? Or news from loved Phthia brought, Told only thee, lest I should grieve, and therefore thus hath wrought On... thy kind spirit? Actor’s son, the good Menoetius (Thy father) lives, and Peleus (mine), great son of Aeacus, Amongst his Myrmidons, whose deaths in duty we should mourn. Or is it what the Greeks sustain that doth thy stomach turn, On whom (for their injustice sake) plagues are so justly laid? Speak, man, let both know either’s heart.’ Patroclus, sighing, said: ‘O Peleus’ son (thou strongest Greek by all degrees that lives), Still be not angry, our sad state such cause of pity gives.
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