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. For horses as to murder for their sake.
  2. Odysseus! Yet again Odysseus! Take
  3. All the Greek armies, is there one but he
  4. Could have devised, or dared, this devilry?
  5. I fear him; yea, fear in mine own despite,
  6. Lest Dolon may have crossed him in the night
  7. 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.