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. Prays them to come; they came and they are dead.
  2. A cleaner man was Paris, when he fled
  3. With his host’s wife. He was no murderer.
  4. Profess not thou that any Greek was there
  5. To fall on us. What Greek could pass the screen
  6. Of Trojan posts in front of us, unseen?
  7. Thyself was stationed there, and all thy men.
  8. What man of yours was slain or wounded when
  9. Your Greek spies came? Not one; ’tis we, behind,
  10. Are wounded, and some worse than wounded, blind