[It is not the answer he had expected. In his thinking, Patroclus' worthiness as a warrior is cause enough for any to mourn.]

Few among this crew were blessed to know him, short as his time was among these ranks - and of those who did know him, none knew him half so well as did our comrades from our dear native land and the allied nations of the Achaeans. Then am I to give a funeral that none attend? A funeral in which the deceased is honored not?