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Phoenix recalls meeting King Peleus in Phthia, where Peleus welcomed him.
“I then fled through Hellas till I came to fertile Phthia, mother of sheep, and to King Peleus, who made me welcome and treated me as a father treats an only son who will be heir to all his wealth.”
Achilles says that his father Peleus is now in Phthia.
“my father, who is now in Phthia weeping for the loss of me his son,”
Nestor remembers Peleus as a Myrmidon counsellor and orator who questioned him about Argive lineages and often prayed for death.
“The old knight Peleus, counsellor and orator among the Myrmidons, loved when I was in his house to question me concerning the race and lineage of all the Argives. How would it not grieve him could he hear of them as now quailing before Hector? Many a time would he lift his hands in prayer that his soul might leave his body and go down within the house of Hades”
Ulysses recalls Peleus sending Achilles from Phthia and charging him to restrain his temper and avoid quarrels.
“your father Peleus sent you from Phthia to Agamemnon, did he not charge you saying, ‘Son, Minerva and Juno will make you strong if they choose, but check your high temper, for the better part is in goodwill. Eschew vain quarrelling, and the Achaeans old and young will respect you more for doing so”
Phoenix recalls Peleus welcoming him like an only son, enriching him, and establishing him over the Dolopians.
“King Peleus, who made me welcome and treated me as a father treats an only son who will be heir to all his wealth. He made me rich and set me over much people, establishing me on the borders of Phthia where I was chief ruler over the Dolopians”
Nestor remembers Peleus charging Achilles to fight among the foremost and surpass his peers.
“Old Peleus bade his son Achilles fight ever among the foremost and outvie his peers”
Polydora is Peleus’s daughter.
“Fair Polydora daughter of Peleus”
Thetis says her mortal husband Peleus now remains at home worn out with age.
“Peleus son of Aeacus, and sorely against my will did I submit to the embraces of one who was but mortal, and who now stays at home worn out with age”
Achilles fears Peleus may already be dead or may have only a little life left, burdened by age and dread of news of Achilles’s death.
“Peleus must surely be either dead, or what little life remains to him is oppressed alike with the infirmities of age and ever present fear lest he should hear the sad tidings of my death”
Peleus once received the Pelian-ash spear from Chiron.
“which Chiron had once given to Peleus”
Patroclus recalled that Peleus received him kindly and named him Achilles's squire.
“The knight Peleus took me into his house, entreated me kindly, and named me to be your squire”
Achilles said Peleus vowed his son's lock and fifty she-goats to Spercheius upon Achilles's return.
“in vain did my father Peleus vow to you that when I returned home to my loved native land I should cut off this lock and offer you a holy hecatomb; fifty she-goats was I to sacrifice to you there at your springs, where is your grove and your altar fragrant with burnt-offerings. Thus did my father vow”
Achilles said Peleus received the immortal steeds from Neptune and in turn gave them to Achilles.
“Neptune gave them to my father Peleus, who in his turn gave them to myself”
Priam portrays Peleus at old age’s threshold, vulnerable yet hopeful Achilles will return.
“Think of your father, O Achilles like unto the gods, who is such even as I am, on the sad threshold of old age. It may be that those who dwell near him harass him, and there is none to keep war and ruin from him. Yet when he hears of you being still alive, he is glad, and his days are full of hope that he shall see his dear son come home to him from Troy”
Achilles says Peleus ruled in prosperity and received a goddess as bride.
“the gods endowed him with all good things from his birth upwards, for he reigned over the Myrmidons excelling all men in prosperity and wealth, and mortal though he was they gave him a goddess for his bride.”
Evidence records not already represented by a claim.
“Achilles son of Peleus”
“the son of Peleus”
“to the house of Peleus”
“The old knight Peleus”
“son of Peleus”
“ships of Achilles son of Peleus”
“which the gods had given to Peleus”
“my father, who is now in Phthia”
“noble Peleus”
“My father is Peleus, son of Aeacus ruler over the many Myrmidons”
“Peleus, who bred him and reared him to be the bane of us Trojans”
“The knight Peleus took me into his house”
“I married her to Peleus”