Πάτροκλος , also gen. Πατροκλῆος, acc. -κλῆα, voc. Πατρόκλεις:
Patroclus, son of Menoetius of Opus, the bosom friend
of Achilles. He had fled as a youth to Peleus on account of an
involuntary homicide, Il. 1.765 ff.
Wearing Achilles' armor at the head of the Myrmidons, he repulsed the
Trojans from the ships, but was slain by Hector, and his death was the
means of bringing Achilles again into the battlefield, Π. The funeral games in honor of Patroclus,
Ψ.
Georg Autenrieth. A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1891.
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