Patroclus to Achilles

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Altīs, Achille ex rūpibus et gelū

numquam solūtō nāte, movent neque haec

vōcēs bucīnae nōn valentēs

rōbora nec moritūra Achaea?

Born of the high crags and never-dissolving frost

do neither these failing calls of the war trumpet,

nor the picked troops of Greece, about to die,

move you?