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. Good. Now for home! And may the end be well!
As they turn there appears at the back a luminous and gigantic shape, the Goddess ATHENA.
ATHENA.
  1. What make ye, from these sleepers thus to part
  2. Desponding and with sorrow-wounded heart
  3. If Hector be not granted you to slay
  4. Nor Paris? Little know ye what great stay
  5. Of help is found for Troy. This very night
  6. Rhesus is come; who, if he see the light
  7. Of morning, not Achilles nor the rack
  8. Of Ajax’ spear hath power to hold him back,
  9. Ere wall and gate be shattered and inside