Iliad

Thus he spoke and they obeyed the word of the son of Peleus. First they poured red wine upon the thick layer of ashes and quenched the fire. With many tears they singled out the whitened bones of their loved comrade and laid them within a golden urn in two layers of fat: they then covered the urn with a linen cloth and took it inside the tent. They marked off the circle where the tomb [ sêma ] should be, made a foundation for it about the pyre, and forthwith heaped up the earth. When they had thus raised a mound [ sêma ] they were going away, but Achilles stayed the people and made them sit in assembly [ agôn ]. He brought prizes from the ships - cauldrons, tripods, horses and mules, noble oxen, women with fair girdles, and swart iron.

IliadBook 23, Line 249Samuel ButlerEnglishVerse permalinkRead in Book 23

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