The Story of the Iliad by Alfred John Church

While the Trojans mourned for Hector in the city, the Greeks went / back to the camp. All the others were scattered, each to his own / ship, but Achilles spake to the Myrmidons, saying, "Loose not your / horses from the yoke, but let us do honour to Patroclus, driving our / chariots round the dead, and making lamentation the while."

Then the Myrmidons did as he had bidden them; thrice round the dead / they drave their chariots, and made lamentation; and Achilles led the / mourning. Also he laid the body of Hector in the dust beside the / dead. After that he made a funeral feast for his people. He himself / was brought by the chiefs, much against his will, to King Agamemnon, / who had made a great feast for the leaders of the Greeks. But when / the heralds heated water in a caldron, and would have had him wash / off the blood, he refused, saying; "Nay; water shall not come nigh me / till I have laid Patroclus on the fire, and heaped a mound over him. / Now let us eat our meal, though it be in sorrow; to-morrow we will / pay due honour to the dead."