Patroclus, a friend of Achilles, who accompanied him to the Trojan War, and whose death by the hand of Hector roused Achilles out of his sullenness, and provoked him to avenge the deed in the death of Hector.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Patristic Literature * Patteson, John Coleridge