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.

for Achilles stayed by his ships, furious about the loss of the girl Briseis, whom he had taken from Lyrnessos at his own great peril, when he had sacked Lyrnessos and Thebe, and had overthrown Mynes and Epistrophos, sons of king Euenor, son of Selepus.

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:

for he shall come with an army of Myrmidon spearmen to the famous land of Priam, to set it in a blaze, his body cased in a suit of golden mail forged by Hephaestus, a gift from his goddess-mother, from Thetis who bore him.

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?

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.

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