Euripides, Rhesus, Edward P. Coleridge (Translator), 906

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Muse

Curses on the son of Oeneus! Curses on Laertes ’ child! who has bereft me of my fair son and left me childless! and on that woman, too,

that left her home in Hellas , and sailed here with her Phrygian lover, bringing death to you, my dearest, for the sake of Troy , and emptying countless cities of their brave heroes.
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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)) — 906 focus

Μοῦσα

ὄλοιτο μὲν Οἰνεΐδας,

ὄλοιτο δὲ Λαρτιάδας,

ὅς μʼ ἄπαιδα γέννας

ἔθηκεν ἀριστοτόκοιο·

ἅ θʼ Ἕλλανα λιποῦσα δόμον
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Φρυγίων λεχέων ἔπλευσε πλαθεῖσʼ

ὑπʼ Ἰλίῳ ὤλεσε μὲν σʼ ἕκατι Τροίας,

φίλτατε, μυριάδας τε πόλεις

ἀνδρῶν ἀγαθῶν ἐκένωσεν.

Translations (2)

Rhesus Perseus (Euripides. The Rhesus of Euripides. Murray, Gilbert, translator. London: George Allen and Company, Ltd., 1913.) — 906 focus

MUSE.

I say to thee: Curse Odysseus,

And cursèd be Diomede!

For they made me childless, and forlorn for ever, of

the flower of sons.

Yea, curse Helen, who left the houses of Hellas .
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She knew her lover, she feared not the ships and sea.

She called thee, called thee, to die for the sake of Paris,

Belovèd, and a thousand cities

She made empty of good men.

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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