Myrmidons

Go home, then, with your ships and comrades to lord it over the Myrmidons.

" He charged them straightly further and dismissed them, whereon they went their way sorrowfully by the seaside, till they came to the tents and ships of the Myrmidons.

and those of Phthia and Hellas the land of fair women, who were called Myrmidons, Hellenes, and Achaeans;

Though I have left Pharsalia, and Peleus, still I linger here by reason of these light breezes at the Euripus, restraining my Myrmidons, while they are always pressing on me, saying:

They were the first who turned against me.

Were not your Myrmidon warriors at your side?

They say the Myrmidons returned home safely under Achilles' son Neoptolemos;

Tell me also if you have heard anything about my father Peleus - does he still rule among the Myrmidons, or do they show him no respect throughout Hellas and Phthia now that he is old and his limbs fail him?

For the multitude of the Myrmidons, how much was it compared with the whole army?

And these things being so, not having how to hide the truth, he says that it was Patroclus who came out with the Myrmidons, having put on the arms of Achilles, and that this man died by Hector, and that Hector thus won the arms.

The hymn will have a pleasant toil, to be the glory of the land where the ancient Myrmidons lived, whose marketplace, famous long ago,