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Canto 20 ✅️

“This is the man who broke my heart, who killed the friend I loved. At last we shall stop shrinking from each other amid the channels of the battlefield.”

Canto 19 ✅️

"So I will weep for you unceasingly now you are dead—because you always were so kind to me.”

Canto 18 ✅️

"So let it go, though I am still upset. I must control the feelings in my chest, and go to look for Hector, who destroyed the one I loved the most, my head, my life."

Canto 17 ✅️

"And yet his mother had not revealed to him what had just happened, this terrible disaster— that his friend, the man he loved the most of all by far, was dead."

"And yet his mother had not revealed to him what had just happened, this terrible disaster—that his friend, the man he loved the most of all by far, was dead."

Canto 16 ✅️

"So now he made Patroclus yearn for battle. Patroclus, when the gods began to call you to death, whom did you kill? Whom first, whom last?"

Canto 14 ✅️

“My darling child, will you do something for me? Or will you turn me down out of resentment, because I help the Greeks and you the Trojans?”

Canto 13 ✅️

"Now lead us onward where your heart commands, and we will gladly follow you. I promise that we will show no lack of martial valor as long as we have strength. No man can fight beyond his strength, however fierce he is.”

Canto 12 ✅️

"Why are you scared of war and violence? Even if all the rest of us are killed beside the Greek ships, there is still no danger that you will die—because you have no courage, and no capacity to stand and fight!"

Canto 11 ✅️

"Swift Achilles answered him, “Noble Patroclus, son of great Menoetius, you are the person dearest to my heart.""