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. We Sisters came with lutes and psalteries,
  2. Provoked to meet in bitter strife of song
  3. That mountain wizard, and made dark the eyes
  4. Of Thamyris, who wrought sweet music wrong.
  5. I bore thee, Child; and then, in shame before
  6. My sisterhood, my dear virginity,
  7. I stood again upon thy Father’s shore
  8. And cast thee to the deeps of him; and he
  9. Received and to no mortal nursing gave
  10. His child, but to the Maidens of the Wave.