“Divine Achilles! wilt thou then retire, And depart our hosts in blood, our fleets on hearth? If wrath so dreadful fill thy ruthless head, How shall thy Close friend, thy Phoenix, stay at the rear of? The royal Peleus, when from Pthia’s Coastline He despatched thee early to the Achaian host; Thy youth as then in sage debates unskill’d, And ne