He took also twelve cloaks of single fold, twelve rugs, twelve fair mantles, and an equal number of shirts.

He weighed out ten talents of gold, and brought moreover two burnished tripods, four cauldrons, and a very beautiful cup which the Thracians had given him when he had gone to them on an embassy; it was very precious, but he grudged not even this, so eager was he to ransom the body of his son.
Then he chased all the Trojans from the court and rebuked them with words of anger.

"Out," he cried, "shame and disgrace to me that you are.

Have you no grief in your own homes that you are come to plague me here?
Is it a small thing, think you, that the son of Saturn has sent this sorrow upon me, to lose the bravest of my sons?
Nay, you shall prove it in person, for now he is gone the Achaeans will have easier work in killing you.

As for me, let me go down within the house of Hades, ere mine eyes behold the sacking and wasting of the city." He drove the men away with his staff, and they went forth as the old man sped them.