Euripides, Rhesus, Gilbert Murray (Translator), 379

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Enter RHESUS in dazzling white armour, followed by his CHARIOTEER and Attendants. The CHARIOTEER carries his golden shield. The CHORUS break into a shout of All Hail!

LEADER.

All hail, great King! A whelp indeed

Is born in Thracia ’s lion fold,
380

Whose leap shall make strong cities bleed.

Behold his body girt with gold,

And hark the pride of bells along

The frontlet of that targe’s hold.

CHORUS.

A God, O Troy, a God and more!
385

’Tis Ares’ self, this issue strong

Of Strymon and the Muse of song,

Whose breath is fragrant on thy shore!

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)) — 380 focus

Χορός

— ἰὼ ἰώ, μέγας ὦ βασιλεῦ.
380

καλόν, ὦ Θρῄκη,

σκύμνον ἔθρεψας πολίαρχον ἰδεῖν.

ἴδε χρυσόδετον σώματος ἀλκήν,

κλύε καὶ κόμπους κωδωνοκρότους

παρὰ πορπάκων κελαδοῦντας.

θεός, ὦ Τροία, θεός, αὐτὸς Ἄρης
385

ὁ Στρυμόνιος πῶλος ἀοιδοῦ

Μούσης ἥκων καταπνεῖ σε.

Translations (2)

Rhesus Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 379 focus

Chorus

Hail, all hail! O mighty prince!

fair the cub you have bred, 0 Thrace , a ruler in his every look. See his stalwart frame in golden corslet! Hark to the ringing bells that peal so proudly from his shield-handle.
380

A god, O Troy , a god, a very Ares, Strymon’s colt and the tuneful Muse’s, has come to breathe courage into you.
385

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 379

Gilbert Murray (Translator)

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LEADER.

All hail, great King! A whelp indeed

Is born in Thracia ’s lion fold,
380

Whose leap shall make strong cities bleed.

Behold his body girt with gold,

And hark the pride of bells along

The frontlet of that targe’s hold.

CHORUS.

A God, O Troy, a God and more!
385

’Tis Ares’ self, this issue strong

Of Strymon and the Muse of song,

Whose breath is fragrant on thy shore!

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LEADER. All hail, great King! A whelp indeed Is born in Thracia ’s lion fold, 380 Whose leap shall make strong cities bleed. Behold his body girt with gold, And hark the pride of bells along The frontlet of that targe’s hold.

CHORUS. A God, O Troy, a God and more! 385 ’Tis Ares’ self, this issue strong Of Strymon and the Muse of song, Whose breath is fragrant on thy shore!

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LEADER.

All hail, great King! A whelp indeed

Is born in Thracia ’s lion fold,
380

Whose leap shall make strong cities bleed.

Behold his body girt with gold,

And hark the pride of bells along

The frontlet of that targe’s hold.

CHORUS.

A God, O Troy, a God and more!
385

’Tis Ares’ self, this issue strong

Of Strymon and the Muse of song,

Whose breath is fragrant on thy shore!