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Canto 24 ✅️

"Achilles wept as he thought about the friend he loved. All-conquering sleep did not take hold of him. He rolled around this way and that, and missed Patroclus—his lost youth, his manly strength, their numerous shared adventures and achievements, and all the troubles they endured together in deadly battles and across the waves."

Canto 23 ✅️

“I swear I will not do it, by Zeus, the best and highest of the gods. It is not right for me to wash my head until I place Patroclus on his pyre and build a mound for him and cut my hair. No grief like this will ever touch my heart as long as I am still among the living."

Canto 21 ✅️

"They could no longer wait outside the wall to see who might escape and who was dead. All those whose feet and hands still had the strength hurried inside the town to save themselves."

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 15 ✅️

"I think he has devised great grief for Ares, whose son, Ascalaphus, has died in battle—the man whom mighty Ares called his son, the man he loved the most of all.”