Crossword-Solution: PATROCLUS
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| Clue | Answers |
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| HECTOR, victim of | 1 answer |
| SARPEDON, slayer of | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PATROCLUS (5)
Yes, I said, and I do not believe that there were any such diseases in the days of Asclepius; and this I infer from the circumstance that the hero Eurypylus, after he has been wounded in Homer, drinks a posset of Pramnian wine well besprinkled with barley-meal and grated cheese, which are certainly inflammatory, and yet the sons of Asclepius who were at the Trojan war do not blame the damsel who gives him the drink, or rebuke Patroclus, who is treating his case.
Croiset remark, the abusive Thersites in the _Aethiopis_ is clearly copied from the Thersites of the _Iliad_; in the same poem Antilochus, slain by Memnon and avenged by Achilles, is obviously modelled on Patroclus.
When great Patroclus courts Achilles' aid, The grateful tribute of my tears is paid; Prone on the shore he feels the pangs of love, And stern Pelides tend'rest passions move.
For (not to derive the same from Hercules) noble descriptions there are hereof in the Grecian funerals of Homer, in the formal obsequies of Patroclus and Achilles; and somewhat elder in the Theban war, and solemn combustion of Meneceus, and Archemorus, contemporary unto Jair the eighth judge of Israel.
Achilles, when, beneath his borrowed crest, He saw Patroclus crimsoning the way, Was with his murderer's slaughter ill content, Till he his mangled corse had dragged and shent.
Quotes with PATROCLUS (3)
For Achilles, the death of Patroclus pushed him into a fury, but it was not only grief that drove him. It was also a sense of shame and guilt because he had not been there to protect his friend. Sometimes men in combat feel this sort of survivor’s guilt even though, realistically, they could have done nothing to prevent their comrade’s death.
Patroclus,' he said. He was always better with words than I.
The Triumph Of Achilles In the story of Patroclusno one survives, not even Achilleswho was nearly a god. Patroclus resembled him; they worethe same armor. Always in these friendshipsone serves the other, one is less than the other: the hierarchyis always apparent, though the legendscannot be trusted--their source is the survivor, the one who has been abandoned. What were the Greek ships on firecompared to this loss? In his tent, Achillesgrieved with his whole beingand the god…