Euripides, Rhesus, Gilbert Murray (Translator), 890

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MUSE.

Nay, look your fill, ye Trojans. It is I,
890

The many-sistered Muse, of worship high

In wise men’s hearts, who come to mourn mine own

Most pitifully loved, most injured, son,

For whose shed blood Odysseus yet shall pay

Vengeance, who crawled and stabbed him where he lay.

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)) — 890 focus

Μοῦσα

ὁρᾶν πάρεστι, Τρῶες· ἡ γὰρ ἐν σοφοῖς
890

τιμὰς ἔχουσα Μοῦσα συγγόνων μία

πάρειμι, παῖδα τόνδʼ ὁρῶσʼ οἰκτρῶς φίλον

θανόνθʼ ὑπʼ ἐχθρῶν· ὅν ποθʼ ὁ κτείνας χρόνῳ

δόλιος Ὀδυσσεὺς ἀξίαν τείσει δίκην.

Translations (2)

Rhesus Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 890 focus

Muse

Behold me,Trojans; for I, the Muse, one of the nine sisters, that have honor among the wise, I am here, having seen the piteous death his foes have dealt my darling son. Yet the crafty Odysseus, that slew him, one day hereafter shall pay a fitting penalty.
890

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 890

Gilbert Murray (Translator)

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MUSE.

Nay, look your fill, ye Trojans. It is I,
890

The many-sistered Muse, of worship high

In wise men’s hearts, who come to mourn mine own

Most pitifully loved, most injured, son,

For whose shed blood Odysseus yet shall pay

Vengeance, who crawled and stabbed him where he lay.

Current edition Perseus

Muse

Behold me,Trojans; for I, the Muse, one of the nine sisters, that have honor among the wise, I am here, having seen the piteous death his foes have dealt my darling son. Yet the crafty Odysseus, that slew him, one day hereafter shall pay a fitting penalty.
890

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MUSE. Nay, look your fill, ye Trojans. It is I, 890 The many-sistered Muse, of worship high In wise men’s hearts, who come to mourn mine own Most pitifully loved, most injured, son, For whose shed blood Odysseus yet shall pay Vengeance, who crawled and stabbed him where he lay.

Current edition Perseus

Muse Behold me,Trojans; for I, the Muse, one of the nine sisters, that have honor among the wise, I am here, having seen the piteous death his foes have dealt my darling son. Yet the crafty Odysseus, that slew him, one day hereafter shall pay a fitting penalty. 890

Stable identifiers

MUSE.

Nay, look your fill, ye Trojans. It is I,
890

The many-sistered Muse, of worship high

In wise men’s hearts, who come to mourn mine own

Most pitifully loved, most injured, son,

For whose shed blood Odysseus yet shall pay

Vengeance, who crawled and stabbed him where he lay.

Muse

Behold me,Trojans; for I, the Muse, one of the nine sisters, that have honor among the wise, I am here, having seen the piteous death his foes have dealt my darling son. Yet the crafty Odysseus, that slew him, one day hereafter shall pay a fitting penalty.
890