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. On a soft couch and, while the cups go by,
  2. Pledge my good health, like thee, in Thracian wine.
  3. I speak as a free man. With thee and thine
  4. Hector is wroth, and tells thee to thy face.
RHESUS.
  1. Thy way is mine, friend. Straight I run my race
  2. In word and deed, and bear no double tongue.
  3. I tell thee, more than thine my heart was wrung,
  4. Yea, angered past all durance, thus to stay
  5. Back from thy battles. ’Twas a folk that lay
  6. Hard on my borders, Scythians of the north;