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. Laughed, and I loosed my hold?
  2. Where shall I find him now?
  3. What shall I deem of him,
  4. To steal thro’ the guards a-row,
  5. Quaking not, eye nor limb,
  6. On thro’ the starlight dim?
  7. Is he of Thessaly,
  8. Born by the Locrian sea,
  9. Or harvester of some starved island’s corn?
  10. What man hath seen his face?