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Patroclus’s house-dogs

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Patroclus’s house-dogs
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Two source-distinguished household dogs sacrificed at the pyre.

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Two of Patroclus's house-dogs were killed and thrown on the pyre.

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“The dead hero had had house-dogs; two of them did Achilles slay and threw upon the pyre;”

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“The dead hero had had house-dogs; two of them did Achilles slay and threw upon the pyre”

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Book 23 · Passage 14

When King Agamemnon heard this he dismissed the people to their ships, but those who were about the dead heaped up wood and built a pyre a hundred feet this way and that; then they laid the dead all sorrowfully upon the top of it. They flayed and dressed many fat sheep and oxen before the pyre, and Achilles took fat from all of them and wrapped the body therein from head to foot, heaping the flayed carcases all round it. Against the bier he leaned twohandled jars of honey and unguents; four proud horses did he then cast upon the pyre, groaning the while he did so. The dead hero had had house-dogs; two of them did Achilles slay and threw upon the pyre; he also put twelve brave sons of noble Trojans to the sword and laid them with the rest, for he was full of bitterness and fury. Then he committed all to the resistless and devouring might of the fire; he groaned aloud and called on his dead comrade by name. ‘Fare well,’ he cried, ‘Patroclus, even in the house of Hades; I am now doing all that I have promised you. Twelve brave sons of noble Trojans shall the flames consume along with yourself, but dogs, not fire, shall devour the flesh of Hector son of Priam.’