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>Priam gives Achilles gold equal to the weight of Hector's body, per Achilles' demand.
Think of thy father, and this helpless face behold
See him in me, as helpless and as old!
Though not so wretched: there he yields to me,
The first of men in sovereign misery!
Thus forced to kneel, thus groveling to embrace
The scourge and ruin of my realm and race;
Suppliant my children’s murderer to implore,
And kiss those hands yet reeking with their gore!
— Spoken by Priam to Achilles; Iliad, Book XXIV, Pope's translation