But th’ unkind Gods have taken hence that glory:
For where he is, a word we cannot hear.
Less had I griev’d, if he his life had lost
With other Argive lords under Troy wall,
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Or, the war done, ’mongst those that love him most.

But now the gods have willed otherwise in their evil devising,
[235] seeing that they have caused him to pass from sight as they have no other man.
For I should not so grieve for his death,
if he had been slain among his comrades in the land of the Trojans,
or had died in the arms of his friends, when he had wound up the skein of war.