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. Just when my host for Troy had started forth,
  2. They fell upon our homes. I had reached the coast
  3. Of the Friendless Sea and purposed to have crossed
  4. My Thracians there. We turned; and all that plain
  5. Is trampled in a mire of Scythian slain
  6. Ploughed by our spears, and blood of Thrace withal
  7. Not stinted. This it was that drowned thy call
  8. For help and held me back from Ilion’s need.
  9. I broke their power; the princes of their breed
  10. I took to hostage, made their elders swear