Skyros

Patroklos lay on the other side of the room, and with him fair Iphis whom Achilles had given him when he took Skyros the city of Enyeus.

Grief greater than this I could not know, not even though I were to hear of the death of my father, who is now in Phthia weeping for the loss of me his son, who am here fighting the Trojans in a strange land [ dêmos] for the accursed sake of Helen, nor yet though I should hear that my son is no more - he who is being brought up in Skyros - if indeed Neoptolemos is still living.

"‘I have heard nothing,’ I answered, ‘of Peleus, but I can tell you the truth [ alêtheia] about your son Neoptolemos, for I took him in my own ship from Skyros with the Achaeans.