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. Thou hast spurned, and when thy kinsmen, drowning, call,
  2. Comest too late. Thou! Others there have been
  3. These long years, not by nature of our kin . .
  4. Some under yon rough barrows thou canst see
  5. Lie buried; they were true to Troy and me;
  6. And others, yet here in the shielded line
  7. Or mid the chariots, parching in the shine
  8. Of noonday, starving in the winds that bite
  9. Through Ilion’s winter, still endure and fight
  10. On at my side. ’Twas not their way, to lie