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. God! All empty as the grave!
DIOMEDE.
  1. Yet Dolon told us Hector’s couch was made
  2. Just here. For none but him I drew this blade.
ODYSSEUS.
  1. What means it? To some ambush is he gone?
DIOMEDE.
  1. Maybe, to work some craft on us at dawn.
ODYSSEUS.
  1. He is hot with courage when he is winning, hot.
DIOMEDE.
  1. What must we do, Odysseus?—He was not
  2. Laid where we thought him, and our hopes are lost.
ODYSSEUS.
  1. Back to our own ship-rampart at all cost!
  2. The God who gave him victory saves him still.