Euripides, Rhesus, Gilbert Murray (Translator), 195

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CHORUS.
¹

O peril strange, O fearful prize!
195

Yet win it and thy life hath wings:

A deed of glory in men’s eyes,

A greatness, to be wooed of kings.

If God but hearken to the right,

Thou drinkest to the full this night
200

The cup of man’s imaginings.

Rhesus. Euripides. Gilbert Murray (Translator). London. 1913.

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Rhesus (English) (Euripides. The Rhesus of Euripides. Murray, Gilbert, translator. London: George Allen and Company, Ltd., 1913.)

Editions (1)

Ῥῆσος Perseus (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. III. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913. (Reprinted 1920-1978)) — 195 focus

Χορός

μέγας ἀγών, μεγάλα δʼ ἐπινοεῖς ἑλεῖν·
195

μακάριός γε μὴν κυρήσας ἔσῃ.

πόνος ὅδʼ εὐκλεής·

μέγα δὲ κοιράνοισι γαμβρὸν πέλειν.

τὰ θεόθεν ἐπιδέτω Δίκα,

τὰ δὲ παρʼ ἀνδράσιν τέλειά σοι φαίνεται.
200

Translations (2)

Rhesus Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 195 focus

Chorus

Great the enterprise, and great the reward you design to receive. Happy, yes, happy will you be, if you succeed; fair the fame your toil shall win. Yet it is a great thing to become the brother-in-law of princes. On the gods’ decrees let Justice keep her eye!
195

what man can give you have, it seems, in full.
200

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 195

Gilbert Murray (Translator)

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CHORUS.
¹

O peril strange, O fearful prize!
195

Yet win it and thy life hath wings:

A deed of glory in men’s eyes,

A greatness, to be wooed of kings.

If God but hearken to the right,

Thou drinkest to the full this night
200

The cup of man’s imaginings.

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CHORUS. 1 O peril strange, O fearful prize! 195 Yet win it and thy life hath wings: A deed of glory in men’s eyes, A greatness, to be wooed of kings. If God but hearken to the right, Thou drinkest to the full this night 200 The cup of man’s imaginings.

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CHORUS.
¹

O peril strange, O fearful prize!
195

Yet win it and thy life hath wings:

A deed of glory in men’s eyes,

A greatness, to be wooed of kings.

If God but hearken to the right,

Thou drinkest to the full this night
200

The cup of man’s imaginings.