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. Among the pickets—spies had passed some spot
  2. Close by the camp. The men who saw them not
  3. Talk much, and they who saw, or might have seen,
  4. Can give no sign nor token. It had been
  5. My purpose to find Hector where he lay.
ATHENA.
  1. Fear nothing. All is well in Troy’s array.
  2. Hector is gone to help those Thracians sleep.
PARIS.
  1. Thy word doth rule me, Goddess. Yea, so deep
  2. My trust is, that all thought of fear is lost
  3. In comfort, and I turn me to my post.
ATHENA.
  1. Go. And remember that thy fortunes still
  2. Are watched by me, and they who do my will
  3. Prosper in all their ways. Aye, thou shalt prove
  4. Ere long, if I can care for those I love.
  5. Back, back, ye twain! Are ye in love with death?
  6. Laertes’ son, thy sword into the sheath!
  7. Our golden Thracian gaspeth in his blood;
  8. The steeds are ours; the foe hath understood
  9. And crowds against you. Haste ye! haste to fly,—
  10. Ere yet the lightning falleth, and ye die!