Note 87
BOOK X
[ “Il.” vxiii. 349. Again the writer draws from the washing the body of Patroclus—which offends.]
…n the tables, while the fourth brought in water and set it to boil in a large cauldron over a good fire which she had lighted. When the water in the cauldron was boiling,[87] she poured cold into it till it was just as I liked it, and then she set me in a bath and began washing me from the cauldron about the head and shoulders, to take the tire and stiffness out of my limbs. As soon as she had done washing me and anointing me …
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