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. And well they nursed thee, and a king thou wast
  2. And first of Thrace in war; yea, far and near
  3. Through thine own hills thy bloody chariot passed,
  4. Thy battered helm flashed, and I had no fear;
  5. Only to Troy I charged thee not to go:
  6. I knew the fated end: but Hector’s cry,
  7. Borne overseas by embassies of woe,
  8. Called thee to battle for thy friends and die.
  9. And thou, Athena—nothing was the deed
  10. Odysseus wrought this night nor Diomede—