Now vultures shall devour thee, wretched youth! Achilles, mighty though he be, has brought No help to thee, though doubtless when he sent Thee forth to battle, and remained within, He charged thee thus: ‘Patroclus, flower of knights, Return not to the fleet until thy hand Hath torn the bloody armor from the corpse Of the man-queller Hector.’ So he spake, And filled with idle hopes thy foolish heart.”