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. Or word I have offended, let me bleed!
  2. Bury me here alive! I ask no pardon.
THRACIAN.
  1. Why threaten them? Art thou a Greek to blind
  2. My barbarous wit so nimbly, in a wind
  3. Of words? This work was thine. And no man’s head
  4. Is asked by us, the wounded and the dead,
  5. Save thine. It needs more play, and better feigned,
  6. To hide from me that thou hast slain thy friend
  7. By craft, to steal his horses.—That is why
  8. He stabs his friends. He prays them earnestly,