beneath their
sonorous blast: but they reached the very fertile Troad, and fell upon
the pile, and mightily resounded the fiercely-burning fire. All night,
indeed, did they together toss about the blaze of the pyre, shrilly
blowing; and all night swift Achilles, holding a double cup, poured wine
upon the ground, drawing it from a golden goblet, and moistened the
earth, invoking the manes of wretched Patroclus. And as a father mourns,
consuming the bones of his son, a bridegroom who, dying, has afflicted
his unhappy parents, so mourned Achilles, burning the bones of his
companion, pacing pensively beside the pile, groaning continually. But
when Lucifer arrived, proclaiming light over the earth, after whom
saffron-vested Morn is diffused over the sea, then the pyre grew
languid, and the flame decayed; and the Winds departed again, to return
home through the Thracian sea; but it (the sea) groaned indeed, raging
with swelling billow.

But Pelides, going apart[740] from the pile, reclined fatigued, and upon
him fell sweet sleep. The others, however, were assembling in crowds
round the son of Atreus, the noise and tumult of whom, approaching,
awoke him; and, being raised up, he sat, and addressed them:

[Footnote 740: On [Greek: liazomai], cf. Buttm. Lex. p. 404.]

"O son of Atreus, and ye other chiefs of the Greeks, first, indeed,
extinguish the whole pile, as much as the fire has seized, with dark
wine; and then let us collect the bones of Patroclus, the son of
Menoetius, well discriminating them (for they are readily distinguished;
for he lay in the centre of the pyre, but the others, both horses and
men, were burned promiscuously at the extremity), and let us place them
in a golden vessel, and with a double [layer of] fat, till I myself be
hidden in Hades. And I wish that a tomb should be made, not very large,
but of such[741] a size as is becoming; but do ye, O Achaeans, hereafter,
make it both broad and lofty, you who may be left behind me at the
many-benched barks."

Thus he spoke; and they obeyed the swift-footed son of Peleus. First of
all, indeed, they totally extinguished the pyre with dark wine, as much
as the fire had invaded, and the deep ashes fell in; and, weeping, they
collected the white bones of their mild companion into a golden vessel,
and a double [layer of] fat; then, laying them in the tent, they covered
them with soft[742] linen. Next they marked out the area for the tomb,
and laid the foundat