Euripides, Rhesus, Edward P. Coleridge (Translator), 527

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Chorus

Whose watch is it? who relieves me? night’s earlier stars are on the wane, and the seven

Pleiads mount the sky; in the middle of the heavens the eagle floats. Rouse yourselves, why delay? Up from your beds to the watch! Do you not see the moonlight?
530

Dawn is near, dawn is coming, and lo! a star that heralds it. Who was told off to the first watch? The son of Mygdon, whom they call Coroebus.
535

Who after him? The Paeonian contingent roused the Cilicians, and the Mysians us. Is it not then high time we went and roused the Lycians for the fifth watch,
540

as the lot decided?
545

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.))

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Ῥῆσος Perseus (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. III. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913. (Reprinted 1920-1978)) — 527 focus

Χορός

— τίνος ἁ φυλακά; τίς ἀμείβει

τὰν ἐμάν; πρῶτα

δύεται σημεῖα καὶ ἑπτάποροι

Πλειάδες αἰθέριαι· μέσα δʼ αἰετὸς οὐρανοῦ ποτᾶται.
530

— ἔγρεσθε, τί μέλλετε; κοιτᾶν

ἔγρεσθε πρὸς φυλακάν.

οὐ λεύσσετε μηνάδος αἴγλαν;

— ἀὼς δὴ πέλας, ἀὼς
535

γίγνεται, καί τις προδρόμων

ὅδε γʼ ἐστὶν ἀστήρ.

— τίς ἐκηρύχθη πρώτην φυλακήν;

— Μυγδόνος υἱόν φασι Κόροιβον.

— τίς γὰρ ἐπʼ αὐτῷ; — Κίλικας Παίων
540

στρατὸς ἤγειρεν, Μυσοὶ δʼ ἡμᾶς.

— οὐκ οὖν Λυκίους πέμπτην φυλακὴν

βάντας ἐγείρειν

καιρὸς κλήρου κατὰ μοῖραν;
545

Translations (2)

Rhesus Perseus (Euripides. The Rhesus of Euripides. Murray, Gilbert, translator. London: George Allen and Company, Ltd., 1913.) — 527 focus

Exeunt HECTOR and RHESUS and Attendants. The Guards, who have been below, come forward sleepily from the camp fire, and sit watching by HECTOR’S tent.

CHORUS.¹

Say, whose is the watch? Who exchanges

With us? The first planets to rise

Are setting; the Pleiades seven

Move low on the margin of heaven,
530

And the Eagle is risen and ranges

The mid-vault of the skies.

ANOTHER.

No sleeping yet! Up from your couches

And watch on, the sluggards ye are!

The moon-maiden’s lamp is yet burning.

THIRD GUARD.

Oh, the morning is near us, the morning!
535

Even now his fore-runner approaches,

Yon dim-shining star.

DIVERS GUARDS.
(talking)

Who drew the first night-watch?

ANOTHER.

’Twas one Koroibos, called the Mygdon’s Son.

THE GUARD.

And after?
540

THE OTHER.

The Mount Taurus men

Had second watch: from them again

The Mysians took it. We came then.

A GUARD.

’Tis surely time. Who will go tell

The fifth watch? ’Tis the Lycians’ spell

By now; ’twas thus the portions fell.
545

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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Euripides Rhesus 527

Edward P. Coleridge (Translator)

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CHORUS.¹

Say, whose is the watch? Who exchanges

With us? The first planets to rise

Are setting; the Pleiades seven

Move low on the margin of heaven,
530

And the Eagle is risen and ranges

The mid-vault of the skies.

ANOTHER.

No sleeping yet! Up from your couches

And watch on, the sluggards ye are!

The moon-maiden’s lamp is yet burning.

THIRD GUARD.

Oh, the morning is near us, the morning!
535

Even now his fore-runner approaches,

Yon dim-shining star.

DIVERS GUARDS.
(talking)

Who drew the first night-watch?

ANOTHER.

’Twas one Koroibos, called the Mygdon’s Son.

THE GUARD.

And after?
540

THE OTHER.

The Mount Taurus men

Had second watch: from them again

The Mysians took it. We came then.

A GUARD.

’Tis surely time. Who will go tell

The fifth watch? ’Tis the Lycians’ spell

By now; ’twas thus the portions fell.
545

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CHORUS. 1 Say, whose is the watch? Who exchanges With us? The first planets to rise Are setting; the Pleiades seven Move low on the margin of heaven, 530 And the Eagle is risen and ranges The mid-vault of the skies.

ANOTHER. No sleeping yet! Up from your couches And watch on, the sluggards ye are! The moon-maiden’s lamp is yet burning.

THIRD GUARD. Oh, the morning is near us, the morning! 535 Even now his fore-runner approaches, Yon dim-shining star.

DIVERS GUARDS. (talking) Who drew the first night-watch?

ANOTHER. ’Twas one Koroibos, called the Mygdon’s Son.

THE GUARD. And after? 540

THE OTHER. The Mount Taurus men Had second watch: from them again The Mysians took it. We came then.

A GUARD. ’Tis surely time. Who will go tell The fifth watch? ’Tis the Lycians’ spell By now; ’twas thus the portions fell. 545

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CHORUS.¹

Say, whose is the watch? Who exchanges

With us? The first planets to rise

Are setting; the Pleiades seven

Move low on the margin of heaven,
530

And the Eagle is risen and ranges

The mid-vault of the skies.

ANOTHER.

No sleeping yet! Up from your couches

And watch on, the sluggards ye are!

The moon-maiden’s lamp is yet burning.

THIRD GUARD.

Oh, the morning is near us, the morning!
535

Even now his fore-runner approaches,

Yon dim-shining star.

DIVERS GUARDS.
(talking)

Who drew the first night-watch?

ANOTHER.

’Twas one Koroibos, called the Mygdon’s Son.

THE GUARD.

And after?
540

THE OTHER.

The Mount Taurus men

Had second watch: from them again

The Mysians took it. We came then.

A GUARD.

’Tis surely time. Who will go tell

The fifth watch? ’Tis the Lycians’ spell

By now; ’twas thus the portions fell.
545