NOUN
- (Greek mythology) a friend of Achilles who was killed in the Trojan War; his death led Achilles to return to the fight after his quarrel with Agamemnon
How To Use Patroclus In A Sentence
- Patroclus sharpened the carving-knife on the kitchen stove, and they all went out into the potato field.
- Patroclus sharpened the carving-knife on the kitchen stove, and they all went out into the potato field.
- Patroclus was in constant attendance on the King and used to stand all day in his antechamber.
- And now the fierce groanful fight again raged about Patroclus, for Minerva came down from heaven and roused its fury by the command of far-seeing Jove, who had changed his mind and sent her to encourage the Danaans. The Iliad of Homer
- But in the Homerical urn of Patroclus, whatever was the solid tegument, we find the immediate covering to be a purple piece of silk: and such as had no covers might have the earth closely pressed into them, after which disposure were probably some of these, wherein we found the bones and ashes half mortared unto the sand and sides of the urn, and some long roots of quich, or dog's-grass, wreathed about the bones. Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
- I remember studying Propertius with him, and the visit of the dead Cynthia, her bones grinding, the reference to the unburied Patroclus.
