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. Howbeit an easier anguish even to me
  2. Falls than to Thetis in her azure sea;
  3. For her son too shall die; and sorrowing,
  4. First on the hills our band for thee shall sing,
  5. Then for Achilles by the weeping wave.
  6. Pallas could murder thee, but shall not save
  7. Thy foe; too swift Apollo’s bolt shall fly.
  8. O fleshly loves of sad mortality,
  9. O bitter motherhood of these that die,
  10. She that hath wisdom will endure her doom,