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. We woke and there was nought to see,
  2. But our own misery.
LEADER.
  1. I cannot hear him right; it sounds as if
  2. The Thracians were surprised or in some grief.
There enters a wounded man, walking with difficulty; he is the Thracian Charioteer who came with RHESUS.
THRACIAN.
  1. The army lost and the king slain,
  2. Stabbed in the dark! Ah, pain! pain!
  3. This deep raw wound . . . Oh, let me die
  4. By thy side, Master, by thy side!
  5. In shame together let us lie
  6. Who came to save, and failed and died.