Euripides, Rhesus, Gilbert Murray (Translator), 820

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LEADER
(grovelling before HECTOR)¹

Woe, woe! It was for thee, only for thee,
820

I must have gone, O Help and Majesty,

²

That time with message that the fires were burning.

³

Mine eye was keen; I swear by Simois river,
825

It never drooped nor slumbered, never, never,

From eve till morning!

My master, verily, I am innocent utterly,

Build not such wrath against me, Lord, nor harden

Thy heart; let Time be judge; and if in deed
830

Or word I have offended, let me bleed!

Bury me here alive! I ask no pardon.

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

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Current edition Perseus

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)) — 820 focus

Χορός

ἰὼ ἰώ,
820

μετὰ σέ, ναί, μετὰ σέ, ὦ πολίοχον κράτος,

τότʼ ἄρʼ ἔμολον, ὅτε σοι

ἄγγελος ἦλθον ἀμφὶ ναῦς πύρʼ αἴθειν·

ἐπεὶ ἄγρυπνον ὄμμʼ ἐν εὐφρόνῃ
825

οὔτʼ ἐκοίμισʼ οὔτʼ ἔβριξʼ,

οὐ τὰς Σιμοεντιάδας πηγάς· μή μοι

κότον, ὦ ἄνα, θῇς· ἀναίτιος γὰρ

ἔγωγε πάντων.

εἰ δὲ χρόνῳ παράκαιρον ἔργον ἢ λόγον
830

πύθῃ, κατά με γᾶς

ζῶντα πόρευσον· οὐ παραιτοῦμαι.

Translations (2)

Rhesus Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 820 focus

Chorus

Woe, woe! It was in quest of you, yes, you, great lord of my city, that I went, when I brought news to you that the Argive army was kindling fires about the ships;
820

for by the springs of Simois I vow my eye kept sleepless watch by night, nor did I slumber or sleep. Do not be angry with me, my lord; I am guiltless of all.
825

Yet if hereafter you find that I in word or deed have done amiss, bury me alive beneath the earth; I ask no mercy.
830

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. 46, 1. 819. The Guard seems to think that the spies got past him when he came to Hector’s tent at the beginning of the play. It was really later, when he made his men leave their post to wake the Lycians. Perhaps he is lying.

2. numeration out of sync: 822 omitted

3. numeration out of sync: 824 omitted

Euripides Rhesus 820

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