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. Who writhed beside me, dying! With a bound
  2. I sprang up, empty-handed, groping round
  3. For spear or sword, when, lo, a young strong man
  4. Was close to me and slashed, and the sword ran
  5. Deep through my flank. I felt its passage well,
  6. So deep, so wide, so spreading . . . then I fell.
  7. And they, they got the bridles in their hand
  8. And fled .... Ah! Ah! This pain. I cannot stand.
  9. I know, I saw, thus much. But why or how
  10. Those dead men went to death I cannot know,