Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A Greek warrior, attendant, and friend to Achilles, killed by Hector in the Trojan War.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • 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

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Examples

  • Homer has Apollo call Patroclus down from the walls, just as he talks Hector into rejoining the battle instead of bringing his men to safety behind the walls.

    The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006

  • Homer has Apollo call Patroclus down from the walls, just as he talks Hector into rejoining the battle instead of bringing his men to safety behind the walls.

    The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006

  • So calling Patroclus, his companion and dearest friend, he sent him to Nestor's tent to inquire.

    The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831

  • So calling Patroclus, his companion and dearest friend, he sent him to Nestor's tent to inquire.

    The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831

  • Patroclus, which is recorded by Homer, in the xxiiid book of his Iliad j of which this is the argument:

    Antient funeral monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the islands adjacent 1767

  • But it happened, as authors in antiquity assumed: "Patroclus" to Alexander's role as a new Achilles.

    Riding with Alexander 2004

  • But once the pen in her hand, once "Patroclus" begun, and the absorption of her mind, her imagination, her every faculty, in the composition of the story, had not permitted her to think of or to remember anything else.

    A Lost Story 1996

  • A week previous she had sent to Trevor the type-written copy of the completed "Patroclus," and to-night she was to call for the manuscript and listen to his suggestions and advice.

    A Lost Story 1996

  • When she left the office she brought "The Last Dryad" home with her, and till far into the night she read it and re-read it, comparing it and contrasting it with "Patroclus," searching diligently if perhaps there were not some minute loophole of evasion for her, some devious passage through which tortuously she might escape.

    A Lost Story 1996

  • Suppose "Patroclus" had been written by a third person, and she had been called upon to choose between it and "The Last Dryad," would she not have taken "Patroclus" and rejected the other?

    A Lost Story 1996

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