Euripides, Rhesus, Edward P. Coleridge (Translator), 233

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Chorus

May he come to the ships! May he reach the army of Hellas and spy it out, then turn again and reach the altars of his father’s

home in Ilium !
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May he mount the chariot drawn by Phthia ’s horses, when our master has sacked Achaea ’s camp,

those horses that the sea-god gave to Peleus, son of Aeacus.
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Rhesus. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1906.

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Rhesus (English) (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906. (Modernized by Perseus.))

Editions (1)

Ῥῆσος Perseus (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. III. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913. (Reprinted 1920-1978)) — 233 focus

Χορός

μόλοι δὲ ναυκλήρια, καὶ στρατιᾶς

Ἑλλάδος διόπτας

ἵκοιτο, καὶ κάμψειε πάλιν θυμέλας οἴ-
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κων πατρὸς Ἰλιάδας.

Φθιάδων δʼ ἵππων ποτʼ ἐπʼ ἄντυγα βαίη,

δεσπότου πέρσαντος Ἀχαιὸν Ἄρη,

τὰς πόντιος Αἰακίδᾳ
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Πηλεῖ δίδωσι δαίμων.

Translations (2)

Rhesus Perseus (Euripides. The Rhesus of Euripides. Murray, Gilbert, translator. London: George Allen and Company, Ltd., 1913.) — 233 focus

CHORUS.

Grant that he reach the shipyard, creep

Keen-eyed through all that host asleep,

Then back to home and hearth, yet living,
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Where now his father prays alone:

Yea, grant that, when the Greeks are slain,

Our wolf shall mount with scourge and rein

Those coursers of the sea-god’s giving,

Whom Peleus drove in days foregone.
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Rhesus (OCR draft) Experimental (Rhesus. Robert Potter's English verse translation, first published in 1781–1783; text from the 1808 Oxford printing.)

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Edward P. Coleridge (Translator)

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