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	While considering an attack, Polydamas tells the remaining Trojans to return to the gates and conserve their strength. Hector agrees to returning to their posts and proclaims that he will not run from Achilles if confronted in battle. While the Trojans eat, the Argives start a funeral pyre that includes cleaning the blood off of Patroclus' body and bathing him with olive oil. Then they cover him with white sheets from head to toe.		While considering an attack, Polydamas tells the remaining Trojans to return to the gates and conserve their strength. Hector agrees to returning to their posts and proclaims that he will not run from Achilles if confronted in battle. While the Trojans eat, the Argives start a funeral pyre that includes cleaning the blood off of Patroclus' body and bathing him with olive oil. Then they cover him with white sheets from head to toe.

			Then Thetis goes to Hephaestus' house to ask him to make Achilles armor. Hephaestus agrees because Thetis saved him from a cave his mother placed him in. He forges the armor combining many elements of life and powered by the gods.