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α Seated privately: separated from his companions; the conversation with his mother. β He presents the suffering as his own; but there is pity for the father. γ Deep-sounding: a reverberating sound; just as the clatter is to thud; they say "deep-sounding." δ Parents are moved because of their nurturing nature; they weep more toward their parents; for even these same ones, having wept, eat; but also their love of honor is the cause of the insults; to bring one's purpose to those who are indignant, for they would not rejoice if they were penalized. +

And even before now the king is sick [in mind]; if ever indeed there should be a need for me to ward off unseemly death from the rest; for this man rages with ruinous thoughts; he knows not how to consider publicly things both future and false at once, so that the Greeks might fight for him in safety by the ships. He did not disobey; and Patroclus went with his dear companion. He went out from the tent and gave the fair-faced Briseis to be led away; and they proceeded along the ships of the Greeks. And she, the woman, went with them unwillingly. But Achilles, having quickly wept apart from his companions α privately and separately, sat down and went away to the shore of the white sea, looking upon the black sea. β Instead of and he prayed much to his most dear mother, stretching out his hands: γ "O mother, since you bore me to be short-lived, Olympian Zeus the high-thunderer δ ought to have granted me honor; but now he has honored me not even a little. For the son of Atreus, the great ruling king Agamemnon, has dishonored me; for having taken it away himself, he holds the prize, having robbed me." Thus he spoke weeping; and his majestic mother heard him, sitting in the depths of the sea beside her aged father. And quickly she rose from the white sea like a mist, and indeed sat down before him as he wept; she caressed him with her hand, through words by name she spoke and the mind she sought out ε: "O child, why do you lament? Why has grief seized your soul? Speak out, hide it not in your mind, so that we both may know." Groaning heavily, Achilles swift of foot spoke to her: "You know; why indeed do I recount these things to you who again know them?"