When thus the King prefers his solemn pray’r.”
Ibid., book ii.
“Achilles at the genial feast presides,
The parts transfixes, and with skill divides.
Meanwhile Patroclus sweats the fire to raise;
The tent is bright’ned with the rising blaze:
Then, when the languid flames at length subside,
He strows a bed of glowing embers wide,280
Above the coals the smoking fragments turns,
And sprinkles sacred salt from lifted urns.”