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 thou, a lord of Barbary even as we,
  2. Thou, brother of our blood, like one at sup
  3. Who quaffs his fill and flings away the cup,
  4. Hast flung to the Greeks my city! Yet, long since,
  5. ’Twas I that found thee but a little prince
  6. And made thee mighty, I and this right hand;
  7. When round Pangaion and the Paiôn’s land,
  8. Front against front, I burst upon the brood
  9. Of Thrace and broke their targes, and subdued
  10. Their power to thine. The grace whereof, not small,