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. I owe thee, and thy faithful offices?
  2. To crown this day and all its victories,
  3. Lo, I have guided here to Troy a strong
  4. Helper, the scion of the Muse of song
  5. And Strymon’s flood, the crownèd stream of Thrace.
PARIS.
  1. Indeed thy love is steadfast, and thy grace
  2. Bounteous to Troy and me. Thou art the joy
  3. And jewel of my days, which I to Troy
  4. Have brought, and made thee hers.—O Cyprian,
  5. I heard, not clearly,—’twas some talk that ran