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bed on which Achilles’s body was cleansed after battle

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bed on which Achilles’s body was cleansed after battle
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Achilles’s body was laid on a bed and his fair skin cleansed with warm water and ointments.

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“when we had borne you to the ships out of the fray, we laid you on your bed and cleansed your fair skin with warm water and with ointments”

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“we laid you on your bed and cleansed your fair skin with warm water and with ointments”

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Book 24 · Passage 5

‘Happy son of Peleus,’ answered the ghost of Agamemnon, ‘for having died at Troy far from Argos, while the bravest of the Trojans and the Achaeans fell round you fighting for your body. There you lay in the whirling clouds of dust, all huge and hugely, heedless now of your chivalry. We fought the whole of the livelong day, nor should we ever have left off if Jove had not sent a hurricane to stay us. Then, when we had borne you to the ships out of the fray, we laid you on your bed and cleansed your fair skin with warm water and with ointments. The Danaans tore their hair and wept bitterly round about you. Your mother, when she heard, came with her immortal nymphs from out of the sea, and the sound of a great wailing went forth over the waters so that the Achaeans quaked for fear. They would have fled panic-stricken to their ships had not wise old Nestor whose counsel was ever truest checked them saying, ‘Hold, Argives, fly not sons of the Achaeans, this is his mother coming from the sea with her immortal nymphs to view the body of her son.’