He spake; and at his boast the Greeks were moved With anger⁠—most of all Antilochus The warlike; yet he left not to the foe His slain companion, but made haste to hold His shield above him. His beloved friends, Mecisteus, son of Echius, and the prince Alastor, lifted up, with many a groan, The corpse, and bore it to the roomy ships.