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. And smite your Greeks, for all their bitter pride.
CHORUS.
  1. All hail!
  2. Sweet words and faithful heart!
  3. Only may Zeus avert
  4. From those proud lips the Wrath that none may bear!
  5. Never a galleon bore,
  6. Now, nor in days of yore,
  7. Prince like to thee, so valiant and so fair.
  8. How shall Achilles, how
  9. Shall Ajax bear him now,