“Not now; for I again must take my way Over the ocean currents to the land Where dwell the Ethiopians, who adore The gods with hecatombs, to take my share Of sacrifice. Achilles supplicates, With promise of munificent offerings, Boreas and sounding Zephyrus to come And blow the funeral structure into flames On which, bewailed by all the Grecian host, Patroclus lies, and waits to be consumed.”