Phoenix

And Achilles answered, "Phoenix, old friend and foster-father, I have no need of such honor.

They all held their peace, dismayed at the sternness with which he had denied them, till presently the old horseman Phoenix in his great fear for the ships of the Achaeans, burst into tears and said, "Noble Achilles, if you are now minded to have your homecoming [ nostos], and in the fierceness of your anger will do nothing to save the ships from burning, how, my son, can I remain here without you?

But Patroklos told his men and the maid-servants to make ready a comfortable bed for Phoenix;

nor, again, have I obtained a meaner education under Aristotle than he did under Phoenix son of Amyntor, a man who was an exile and at variance with his father.

For otherwise he would not have brought in Phoenix as a teacher of speech for Achilles—he says, at any rate, that Phoenix was sent by Achilles' father 'to be a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.

Nor should we approve Achilles’ attendant Phoenix as speaking fairly when he counselled him if he received gifts for it to defend the Achaeans, but without gifts not to lay aside his wrath;

For he who inculcates right speech and conduct would merit the honour given by Achilles to Cheiron and Phoenix;