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. No brave man seeks so dastardly to harm
  2. His battle-foes; he meets them arm to arm.
  3. This Greek of thine, this sitter like a thief
  4. In ambush, I will make of him my chief
  5. Care. I will take him living, drive a straight
  6. Stake through him, and so star him at the Gate
  7. To feed your wide-winged vultures. ’Tis the death
  8. Most meet for a lewd thief, who pillageth
  9. God’s sanctuary, or so we hold in Thrace.
HECTOR.
  1. Seek first some sleep. There still remains a space