Euripides, Rhesus, Edward P. Coleridge (Translator), 351

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Chorus

Strymon, who begot you, his strong young son, that day his swirling waters found a refuge in the tuneful Muse’s virgin bosom.

You are my Zeus, my god of light, as you come driving your dappled horses. Now, O Phrygia , O my country, now may you by God’s grace address Zeus the Deliverer!
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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)) — 351 focus

Χορός

Στρυμών, ὅς ποτε τᾶς μελῳ-

δοῦ Μούσας διʼ ἀκηράτων

δινηθεὶς ὑδροειδὴς κόλπων

σὰν ἐφύτευσεν ἥβαν.

σύ μοι Ζεὺς ὁ φαναῖος
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ἥκεις διφρεύων βαλιαῖσι πώλοις.

νῦν, ὦ πατρὶς ὦ Φρυγία,

ξὺν θεῷ νῦν σοι τὸν ἐλευθέριον

Ζῆνα πάρεστιν εἰπεῖν.

Translations (2)

Rhesus Perseus (Euripides. The Rhesus of Euripides. Murray, Gilbert, translator. London: George Allen and Company, Ltd., 1913.) — 351 focus

CHORUS.

By Strymon’s torrent alone she sang,

And Strymon shivered and coiled and sprang;

And her arms went wide to the wild sweet water,

And the love of the River around her rang.

We hail thee, Fruit of the River’s seed,
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Young Zeus of the Dawn, on thy starry steed!

O ancient City, O Ida’s daughter,

Is God the Deliverer found indeed?

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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