Euripides, Rhesus, Edward P. Coleridge (Translator), 895

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Muse

O my son, your mother’s grief, I mourn for you in my native strains of woe! What a journey you made to Troy , a very path of ill-fortune and sorrow!
895

starting, in spite of all my warnings and your father’s earnest prayers, in defiance of us. Woe to me for you, my dear, dear son! Ah, woe!
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Rhesus. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1906.

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Current edition Perseus

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)) — 895 focus

Μοῦσα

ἰαλέμῳ αὐθιγενεῖ,
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τέκνον, σʼ ὀλοφύρομαι, ὦ

ματρὸς ἄλγος, οἵαν

ἔκελσας ὁδὸν ποτὶ Τροίαν·

ἦ δυσδαίμονα καὶ μελέαν,

ἀπομεμφομένας ἐμοῦ πορευθείς,
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ἀπὸ δʼ ἀντομένου πατρὸς βιαίως.

ὤμοι ἐγὼ σέθεν, ὦ φιλία

φιλία κεφαλά, τέκνον, ὤμοι.

Translations (2)

Rhesus Perseus (Euripides. The Rhesus of Euripides. Murray, Gilbert, translator. London: George Allen and Company, Ltd., 1913.) — 895 focus

MUSE.

With a dirge of the Thracian mountains,¹
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I mourn for thee, O my son.

For a mother’s weeping, for a galley’s launching, for

the way to Troy;

A sad going, and watched by spirits of evil.

His mother chid him to stay, but he rose and went.
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His father besought him to stay, but he went in anger.

Ah, woe is me for thee, thou dear face,

My belovèd and my son!

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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