Rhesus

Euripides

Euripides. The Rhesus of Euripides. Translated into English rhyming verse with explanatory notes by Gilbert Murray. Murray, Gilbert, translator. London: George Allen and Company, Ltd., 1913.

  1. And thou, a lord of Barbary even as we,
  2. Thou, brother of our blood, like one at sup
  3. Who quaffs his fill and flings away the cup,
  4. Hast flung to the Greeks my city! Yet, long since,
  5. ’Twas I that found thee but a little prince
  6. And made thee mighty, I and this right hand;
  7. When round Pangaion and the Paiôn’s land,
  8. Front against front, I burst upon the brood
  9. Of Thrace and broke their targes, and subdued
  10. Their power to thine. The grace whereof, not small,
  11. Thou hast spurned, and when thy kinsmen, drowning, call,
  12. Comest too late. Thou! Others there have been
  13. These long years, not by nature of our kin . .
  14. Some under yon rough barrows thou canst see
  15. Lie buried; they were true to Troy and me;
  16. And others, yet here in the shielded line
  17. Or mid the chariots, parching in the shine
  18. Of noonday, starving in the winds that bite
  19. Through Ilion’s winter, still endure and fight
  20. On at my side. ’Twas not their way, to lie