Euripides, Rhesus, Edward P. Coleridge (Translator), 242

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Chorus

For he alone had heart enough for home and country to go and spy on the naval station; I admire

his spirit; how few stout hearts there are, when on the sea the sunlight dies and the city labors in the surge.
245

Phrygia yet has left a valiant few, and bold hearts in the battle’s press; it is only Mysia ’s sons who scorn us as allies.
250

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)) — 242 focus

Χορός

ἐπεὶ πρό τʼ οἴκων πρό τε γᾶς ἔτλα μόνος

ναύσταθμα βὰς κατιδεῖν· ἄγαμαι

λήματος· ἦ σπανία τις
245

τῶν ἀγαθῶν, ὅταν ᾖ

δυσάλιος ἐν πελάγει

καὶ σαλεύῃ

πόλις. ἔστι Φρυγῶν τις ἔστιν ἄλκιμος·
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ἔνι δὲ θράσος ἐν αἰχ-

μᾷ· πόθι Μυσῶν ὃς ἐμὰν

συμμαχίαν ἀτίζει;

Translations (2)

Rhesus Perseus (Euripides. The Rhesus of Euripides. Murray, Gilbert, translator. London: George Allen and Company, Ltd., 1913.) — 242 focus

CHORUS.

Alone in those Greek ships to stake

His life, for home and country’s sake:

’Tis wondrous! Few be hearts so true
245

When seas across the bulwark break,

And sunlight sickens o’er the crew.

¹

Ah, Phrygia still hath hearts of rock!
250

The Phrygian spear flies fast and far!

Where shall ye find the fool to mock

Our works in war?

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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