Secondly, the return of Cedric's body in The Goblet of Fire stems from a passage in Homer's Iliad, where Achilles returns his enemy's body to his father and weeps for him.
Cleopatra wept for Antony and tried in various ways to take her own life but she was watched over by Octavian's men who wanted to take her back to Rome.
And I wept for six months, and I mewled around and pewled around, and she kept harassing me until, finally, I went under the house with a book of poetry, and I tried to speak, and I had voice.
Weeks have passed, but no trace of her has been discovered, and we relinquish all hope, tie a black ribbon to her basket, set aside her dish, and weep for her as one lost to us forever.
But the Star-Child stirred not from his place, but shut the doors of his heart against her, nor was there any sound heard save the sound of the woman weeping for pain.
Inside the litter, Tommen settled back against his pillows and peered out at the falling rain. " The gods are weeping for grandfather. Lady Jocelyn says the raindrops are their tears" .