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is pierced with an arrow by Paris, and<br />

carried from the fight in Nestor's chariot.<br />

Achilles (who overlooked the action<br />

from his ship) sent Patroclus to inquire<br />

which <strong>of</strong> the Greeks was wounded in that<br />

manner; Nestor entertains him in his tent<br />

with an account <strong>of</strong> the accidents <strong>of</strong> the<br />

day, and a long recital <strong>of</strong> some former<br />

wars which he remembered, tending to<br />

put Patroclus upon persuading Achilles<br />

to fight for his countrymen, or at least<br />

to permit him to do it, clad in Achilles'<br />

armour. Patroclus, on his return, meets<br />

Eurypylus also wounded, and assists him<br />

in that distress.<br />

This book opens with the eight and-twentieth<br />

day <strong>of</strong> the poem, and the same day,<br />

with its various actions and adventures is<br />

extended through the twelfth, thirteenth,<br />

fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth,<br />

and part <strong>of</strong> the eighteenth books.

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