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. Amid the galleys at the news they bring
  2. Of Trojan sluggards and the fool their king?
  3. Great God, ye never baulked them as they came,
  4. Nor smote them as they went!
  5. Who bears the blame
  6. Of this but thou? Thou wast the watcher set
  7. To guard this host till morn. I tell thee yet
  8. For this deed—I have sworn by Zeus our Lord !—
  9. The scourge of torment or the headsman’s sword
  10. Awaits thee. Else, be Hector in your thought