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. Forever to the sunlight. When we seek
  2. Our vengeance, we shall go not to the Greek.
  3. What stranger in that darkness could have trod
  4. Straight to where Rhesus lay—unless some God
  5. Pointed his path? They knew not, whispered not,
  6. Rhesus had ever come. . . . ’Tis all a plot.
HECTOR
  1. Good allies I have had since first the Greek
  2. Set foot in Troy, and never heard them speak
  3. Complaint of Hector. Thou wilt be the first.
  4. I have not, by God’s mercy, such a thirst