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. Like one long hurt, who nurseth anger sore;
  2. Would that a curse, yea, would
  3. The uttermost wrath of God
  4. Had held those feet from walking Ilion’s shore!
DIVERS GUARDS
  1. Odysseus or another, ’tis the guard
  2. Will weep for this. Aye, Hector will be hard.—
  3. What will he say?—He will suspect.—Suspect?
  4. What evil? What should make you fear?—
  5. ’Twas we that left a passage clear.—
  6. A passage?—Yea, for these men’s way,