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. I had trained long since and drove at Rhesus’ side—
  2. But wolves were on their backs, wolves, couched astride,
  3. Who drove and scourged; I saw the horses rear
  4. And stagger with wide nostrils, stiff with fear,
  5. And, starting up to drive the beasts away,
  6. I woke.—A terror of great darkness lay
  7. About me, but I lifted up my head
  8. And listened. There was moaning, like the dead
  9. That moan at night, and over me there flowed,
  10. So soft, so warm—it was my master’s blood,