[It is both the bitterest comfort and the sweetest trial to speak now of his friend, his lover, and yet he cannot help but answer.]
By birthright and by deed I am the greater man, so the Achaeans will say, yet in my heart's estimation there is no greater man than this, my Patroclus.
[Such words he would never have been able to say in his homeland, or any of the shores trodden by Achaean feet, yet here he might speak more freely.]
He has stayed loyal by my side since first he entered my father's house some two decades past, that day when Menoetius came seeking asylum for his son. Peleus did appoint him my therapon, and he has since exceeded all duties thrust upon him.
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By birthright and by deed I am the greater man, so the Achaeans will say, yet in my heart's estimation there is no greater man than this, my Patroclus.
[Such words he would never have been able to say in his homeland, or any of the shores trodden by Achaean feet, yet here he might speak more freely.]
He has stayed loyal by my side since first he entered my father's house some two decades past, that day when Menoetius came seeking asylum for his son. Peleus did appoint him my therapon, and he has since exceeded all duties thrust upon him.