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