Euripides Rhesus 360

Editions (1)

Ῥῆσος Perseus (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. III. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913. (Reprinted 1920-1978)) — 360 focus

Χορός

ἆρά ποτʼ αὖθις ἁ παλαιὰ Τροΐα

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τοὺς προπότας παναμερεύ-

σει θιάσους ἐρώτων

ψαλμοῖσι καὶ κυλίκων οἰνοπλανή-

τοις ὑποδεξίαις ἁμίλ-

λαις κατὰ πόντον Ἀτρειδᾶν

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Σπάρταν οἰχομένων

Ἰλιάδος παρʼ ἀκτᾶς;

ὦ φίλος, εἴθε μοι

σᾷ χερὶ καὶ σῷ δορὶ πρά-

ξας τάδʼ ἐς οἶκον ἔλθοις.

Translations (2)

Rhesus Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 360 focus

Chorus

Shall old Troy once more at last spend the whole day in drinking toasts and singing love’s praise, while the bewildering wine-cup sends a capacious challenge round,

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as over the sea for Sparta the sons of Atreus quit the Ilian strand? O friend, with your arm and spear may you do me this service, then safe return.

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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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