Feel no anger at me, Patroclus. if you learn –
even there in the House of Death – I let his father
have Prince Hector back. He gave me worthy ransom
and you shall have your share from me, as always,
your fitting, lordly share.
– Homer
The Iliad, Book 24, lines 695-699. As Achilles lifts Hector’s body up and lays it down on a bier to return to his father Priam, he calls out to the ghost of his friend Patroclus. He asks Patroclus not to be angry with him for letting Priam have his son back.