Patrôclus, A noble Grecian, sonne of Menætius, & vnder Chiron the Centaute in his youth, brought vp togither with Achilles, who euer after loued him most tenderly. Mherfore at the warte of Troy. (when Achilles did keepe his Tente, and would not fight, in displeasure that Agamemnon had taken Lady Briseis from him) This Patroclus the more to feare the Troyans, borrowed the armout of Achilles, whom he knew they diadde ful fore, and in the same fighting in the field, was slaine of Hector. For sorrow whereof Achilles before could by no meanes be perswaded) to reuenge his friendes death as a fierce tyger came agayne into the field, and there meeting with Hecto after long fight, chased him on foote round about the walles of Troy, and at the last slue him, and in the fight of his wretched father Priamus, drue him by an borse tayle, about the walles, and after twelue dayes space scantly with a great summe of money coulde be perswaded to suffer him to be buried.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Pātrōclus, i (collat. form Pātrĭcŏ-les, is, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 38; cf. Enn. p. 92 Vahl.—Gr. acc. Patroclon, Prop. 2, 8, 33 Müll.; al. Patroclen), m., = *pa/troklos and *patroklh=s. I.Son of Menœtius and Sthenele, the friend of Achilles, slain in single combat by Hector, Hyg. Fab. 97; Ov. P. 1, 3, 73 al.—II.A man, otherwise unknown, from whom the Patroclianae sellae (i. e. latrinae) take their name, Mart. 12, 77, 9.—III.The name of an elephant of king Antiochus, Plin. 8, 5, 5, 12.