Achilles (in the first book of the Iliad), won by the persuasion of Minerva, resolves, though indignantly, to give up Briseis, and Patroclus is commanded to deliver her to the heralds of Agamemnon:
Ως φατο· Πατροκλος δε φιλω επεπεἰθεθ’ εταιρω· Εκ δ’ ἄγαγε κλισιης Βρισηιδα καλλιπαρηον, Δῶκε δ’ αγειν· τω δ’ αυτις ιτην παρα νηας Αχαιων· Ἡ δ’ αεκουσ’ ἁμα τοισι γυνὴ κιεν.