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. Up thro’ the city throng,
  2. Foam on his lips, a-cold,
  3. Huddled in rags that hung
  4. Covering just the sword
  5. Hid in his mantle’s pleat;
  6. His face grimed and scored,
  7. A priest of wandering feet,
  8. Who begged his bread in the street.
  9. Many and evil things
  10. He cast on the brother kings