Euripides, Rhesus, Edward P. Coleridge (Translator), 370

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Chorus

Come, appear, brandish that shield of gold full in Achilles’ face; raise it aslant along the chariot’s branching rail, urging on your horses, and shaking your lance with double point.
370

For none after facing you will ever join the dance on the plains of Argive Hera; no, but he shall die, slain by Thracians, and this land shall bear the burden of his corpse and be glad.
375

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)) — 370 focus

Χορός

ἐλθέ, φάνηθι, τὰν ζάχρυσον προβαλοῦ
370

Πηλεΐδα κατʼ ὄμμα πέλ-

ταν δοχμίαν πεδαίρων

σχιστὰν παρʼ ἄντυγα, πώλους ἐρεθί-

ζων δίβολόν τʼ ἄκοντα πάλ-

λων. σὲ γὰρ οὔτις ὑποστὰς
375

Ἀργείας ποτʼ ἐν Ἥ-

ρας δαπέδοις χορεύσει·

ἀλλά νιν ἅδε γᾶ

καπφθίμενον Θρῃκὶ μόρῳ

φίλτατον ἄχθος οἴσει.

Translations (2)

Rhesus Perseus (Euripides. The Rhesus of Euripides. Murray, Gilbert, translator. London: George Allen and Company, Ltd., 1913.) — 370 focus

CHORUS.

Thou Rider golden and swift and sheer,
370

Achilles falters: appear! appear!

The car like flame where the red shield leapeth,

The fell white steeds and the burning spear!

No Greek shall boast he hath seen thy face

And danced again in the dancing place;
375

And the land shall laugh for the sheaves she reapeth,

Of spoilers dead by a sword from Thrace .

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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