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Noticing that moments after Achilles compares Patroclus to a child/ fool (νήπιος) weeping to be picked up by her mother (16.8), the narrator calls Patroclus a child/ fool (νήπιος) for pleading with Achilles to grant what will result in his own destruction (16.46). But feminine in the first case.

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