iliad 1 a kindered wound to heel

The messengers are made bless by the tiding of their introduction and the holiness of the task referred to.

Patroclus now the unwilling beauty brought;

She, in soft sorrows, and in pensive thought,

Pass'd silent, as the heralds held her hand,

And of look'd back, slow-moving o'er the strand.

Not so his loss the fierce Achilles bore;

But sad, retiring to the sounding shore,

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O'er the wild margin of the deep he hung,

That kindred deep from whence his mother sprung:⁶¹

There bathed in tears of anger and disdain,

Thus loud lamented to the stormy main:

n   Achilles means grand general or head general.  Be he one or many, those who lead the leagues armies becomes the same question as as those of Ulysses and Agamemnon.  Patroclus is Achilles’  prize .  She is silent and pensive; she is not happy with the result of her unwilling return yet she was silent and tame to the acceptance of the realization of that which must now occur.  No one is happy, the tears of the disdain of the loss of kindred love and the grace of motherness equal to Achilles own family, is echoed by all concerned.  He with anger and tears was witness to a loss of a love he saw equal to the greatness of his own mother, she must have been deemed to be a great mother.