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. This needs no surmise: ’tis disaster plain
  2. That comes. He speaketh of some ally slain.
THRACIAN.
  1. Disaster, yea: and with disaster shame,
  2. Which lights Disaster to a twofold flame
  3. Of evil. For to die in soldier’s wise,
  4. Since die we needs must . . . though the man who dies
  5. Hath pain . . . to all his house ’tis praise and pride;
  6. But we, like laggards and like fools we died!
  7. When Hector’s hand had showed us where to rest
  8. And told the watchword, down we lay, oppressed