On this he sent the other princes away, save only the two sons of Atreus and Ulysses, Nestor, Idomeneus,and the knight Phoenix, who stayed behind and tried to comfort him in the bitterness of his sorrow: but he would not be comforted till he should have flung himself into the jaws of battle, and he fetched sigh on sigh, thinking ever of Patroclus. Then he said—