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
  5. For horses as to murder for their sake.
  6. Odysseus! Yet again Odysseus! Take
  7. All the Greek armies, is there one but he
  8. Could have devised, or dared, this devilry?
  9. I fear him; yea, fear in mine own despite,
  10. Lest Dolon may have crossed him in the night
  11. And perished; ’tis so long he cometh not.
THRACIAN.
  1. I know not who Odysseus is, nor what.
  2. I know it was no Greek that wounded us.
HECTOR.
  1. To think thus pleasures thee? Well, have it thus.