id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt homer-iliad_23 homer-iliad_23 .txt text/plain 9037 275 75 But Achilles would not let the Myrmidons go, and spoke to his brave comrades saying, Myrmidons, famed horsemen and my own trusted friends, not yet, forsooth, let us unyoke, but with horse and chariot draw near to the body and mourn Patroclus, in due honour to the dead. He sat upright and said, Son of Atreus, and all other princes of the Achaeans, first pour red wine everywhere upon the fire and quench it; let us then gather the bones of Patroclus son of Menoetius, singling them out with care; they are easily found, for they lie in the middle of the pyre, while all else, both men and horses, has been thrown in a heap and burned at the outer edge. cache/homer-iliad_23.txt txt/homer-iliad_23.txt