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. My belovèd and my son!
LEADER.
  1. Goddess, if tears for such as thee may run
  2. In our low eyes, I weep for thy dead son.
MUSE.
  1. I say to thee: Curse Odysseus,
  2. And cursèd be Diomede!
  3. For they made me childless, and forlorn for ever, of
  4. the flower of sons.
  5. Yea, curse Helen, who left the houses of Hellas.
  6. She knew her lover, she feared not the ships and sea.
  7. She called thee, called thee, to die for the sake of Paris,