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. To bring my house due tribute, year by year,
  2. Then, never lagging, crossed the Pontus mouth,
  3. Marched by long stages through Bithynia south
  4. And here am come . . . not drunken with the feast,
  5. As thou wouldst have me be, not lulled to rest
  6. In golden chambers. In this harness hard
  7. I have borne my nights of winter storm that starred
  8. The Euxine into ice and scared the strong
  9. Paionians. Long I have been, but not too long
  10. To save thee yet. Friend, this is the tenth year