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. Lose not thy path watching a distant view.
RHESUS.
  1. Thou seem’st content to suffer, not to do?
HECTOR.
  1. I have a kingdom large by mine own right ..
  2. What station will best please thee in this fight
  3. To ground the targe and stablish thine array?
  4. Right, left, or midmost in the allies? Say.
RHESUS.
  1. ’Twould please me best to fight these Greeks alone.
  2. Yet, if ’twould irk thine honour not to have thrown
  3. One firebrand on the ships with me, why, then
  4. Set us to face Achilles and his men.