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 labourest on unceasing, with no clear
  2. Vantage; day creeps by day, and Ares throws
  3. The same red dice for thee and for thy foes.
  4. Now, hear my vow. Before one day’s eclipse
  5. I swear to break their wall, to burn their ships
  6. And slay their princes. On the second day
  7. I leave this soil and take my homeward way,
  8. Thy pains relieved. No Trojan of the land
  9. Need move, nor turn the buckler in his hand.
  10. Alone my late-comers will turn the tide