ὡς εἰπὼν. ἑτάροισιν ἐκέκλετο δῖος Ἀχιλλεὺς
ἀμφὶ πυρὶ στῆσαι τρίποδα μέγαν. ὄφρα τάχιστα
Πάτροκλον λούσειαν ἄπο βρότον αἱματόεντα:
οἱ δὲ λοετροχόον τρίποδ' ἵ̈στασαν ἐν πυρὶ κηλέῳ:
ἒν δ' ἂρ ὕδωρ ἔχεαν. ὑπὸ δὲ ξύλα δαῖον ἑλόντες:
γάστρην μὲν τρίποδος. πῦρ ἄμφεπε, θέρμετο δ' ὕδωρ:
αὐτὰρ ἐπει δὴ ζέσσεν ὕδωρ ἐνι ήνοπι χαλκῷ.
καὶ τότε δὴ λοῦσάν τε καὶ ἤλειψαν λίπ' ἐλαίῳ:
ἐν δ' ὠτειλὰς πλῆσαν ἀλείφατος ἐννεώροιο:
ἐν λεχέεσσι δὲ θέντες. ἑανῷ λιτὶ κάλυψαν
ἐς πόδας ἐκ κεφαλῆς: καθ' ύπερθε δὲ φάρεϊ λευκῷ:
τερπόμενοι: δοιὼ δὲ κυβιστητῆρε κατ' αὐτοὺς
So saying, goodly Achilles bade his comrades set upon the fire a great cauldron, that with speed they might wash from Patroclus the bloody gore. And they set upon the blazing fire the cauldron for filling the bath, and poured in water, and took billets of wood and kindled them beneath it. Then the fire played about the belly of the cauldron, and the water grew warm. But when the water boiled in the bright bronze, then they washed him and anointed him richly with oil, filling his wounds with ointment of nine years old; and they laid him upon his bed, and covered him with a soft linen cloth from head to foot, and thereover with a white robe.
