Euripides, Rhesus, Gilbert Murray (Translator), 454

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CHORUS.
The Trojan soldiers, who have been listening with delight, here break out in irrepressible applause.¹

All hail!

Sweet words and faithful heart!
455

Only may Zeus avert

From those proud lips the Wrath that none may bear!

Never a galleon bore,

²

Now, nor in days of yore,
460

Prince like to thee, so valiant and so fair.

How shall Achilles, how

Shall Ajax bear him now,

Or face thy lance? May I but stand that day

Watching to see him reel
465

Broken beneath thy steel,

And once in blood his many murders pay!

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)) — 454 focus

Χορός

ἰὼ ἰώ.

φίλα θροεῖς, φίλος Διόθεν εἶ· μόνον
455

φθόνον ἄμαχον ὕπατος

Ζεὺς θέλοι ἀμφὶ σοῖς λόγοισιν εἴργειν.

τὸ δὲ νάιον Ἀργόθεν δόρυ

οὔτε πρίν τινʼ οὔτε νῦν
460

ἀνδρῶν ἐπόρευσε σέθεν κρείσσω. πῶς μοι

Ἀχιλεὺς τὸ σὸν ἔγχος ἂν δύναιτο,

πῶς δʼ Αἴας ὑπομεῖναι;

εἰ γὰρ ἐγὼ τόδʼ ἦμαρ εἰσίδοιμʼ, ἄναξ,

ὅτῳ πολυφόνου
465

χειρὸς ἀποινάσαιο λόγχᾳ.

Translations (2)

Rhesus Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 454 focus

Chorus

Joy, joy!

sweet champion sent by Zeus! Only may Zeus, throned on high, keep jealousy, resistless foe, from you for your words! That fleet of ships from Argos never brought,
455

neither formerly nor now, among all its warriors a braver than you. How I wonder will Achilles, how will Aias stand the onset of your spear? Oh! that I might see that day, my prince,
460

on which you may wreak vengeance on them, gripping your lance in your death-dealing hand!
465

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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Rhesus

1. P. 25, 11. 454 ff. This little Chorus seems to represent—in due tragic convention—an irrepressible outburst of applause from the Trojans, interrupting Rhesus’s speech. In spite of the words about possible wrath that may follow the Thracian’s boasting, the applause excites him at once to a yet bolder gab.

2. numeration out of sync: 459 omitted

Euripides Rhesus 454

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