tched out with his friendly arms, nor
caught him;[729] for the spirit went gibbering[730] beneath the earth,
like smoke. Then Achilles sprang up astonished, and clapped together his
hands, and spoke this doleful speech:

"Alas! there is indeed then, even in the dwellings of Hades, a certain
spirit and image, but there is no body[731] in it at all; for all night
the spirit of miserable Patroclus stood by me, groaning and lamenting,
and enjoined to me each particular, and was wonderfully like unto
himself."

[Footnote 729: Cf. Georg. iv. 499; AEn. ii. 790, iv. 276; Lucan,
iii. 34.]

[Footnote 730: See Odyss. xxiv. sub init, where the same word is
applied to the shades of the suitors of Penelope.]

[Footnote 731: By [Greek: phrenes] we may understand the power of
using reason and judgment, with Duport, Gnom. p. 128, and Jeremy
Taylor, Holy Dying, p. 524, ed. Bohn. But ver. 100 seems to
require the interpretation which I have followed; Clarke
rendering it "praecordia."]

Thus he spoke; and excited among them all a longing for lamentation; and
rosy-fingered Morn appeared to them while weeping around the miserable
corpse. But king Agamemnon incited everywhere from the tents both mules
and men to bring wood; and for this a brave man was roused, Meriones,
the servant of valour-loving Idomeneus. And they went, holding in their
hands wood-lopping axes and well-twisted ropes; and before them went the
mules. They passed over many ascents,[732] descents, and straight ways
and crossways. But when they reached the forests of many-rilled Ida,
hastening, they cut down the towering oaks with the keen-edged brass.
These greatly resounding, fell; and the Greeks then splitting them, tied
[them] upon the mules, but they pained the ground with their hoofs,
eager to reach the plain through the close thickets. But all the
wood-cutters carried trunks of trees, for so Meriones, the servant of
valour-loving Idomeneus, ordered; and afterwards threw them in order
upon the shore, where Achilles designed a mighty tomb for Patroclus, and
for himself.

But when they had thrown on all sides immense quantities of wood,
remaining there in a body, they sat down; but Achilles immediately
ordered the warlike Myrmidons to gird on the brass, and to yoke each his
horses to his chariot; but they arose, and were arrayed in their armour.
And both the combatants and the charioteers ascended their chariots; the
cavalry indeed first,