The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide

part in the war, and disaster attended the Greeks. Patroclus now persuaded

Achilles to allow him to lead the Myrmidons to battle dressed in his armour, and he having been slain by Hector, Achilles vowed revenge on the Trojans, and forgot his anger against the Greeks. He attacked the Trojans and drove them back to their walls, slaying them in great numbers, chased Hector, who fled be...