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. Or face thy lance? May I but stand that day
  2. Watching to see him reel
  3. Broken beneath thy steel,
  4. And once in blood his many murders pay!
RHESUS.
  1. Yea, more atonement thou shalt take from me
  2. For this slow help.—May Adrasteia see
  3. My heart and pardon!—When we two have set
  4. Troy free from these who compass her with hate,
  5. Soon as the Gods have had their first-fruits, I
  6. With thee will sail—so help me Zeus on high!—