Euripides, Rhesus, ed. Gilbert Murray, 254

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Χορός

τίνʼ ἄνδρʼ Ἀχαιῶν ὁ πεδοστιβὴς σφαγεὺς

οὐτάσει ἐν κλισίαις, τετράπουν
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μῖμον ἔχων ἐπιγαίου

θηρός; ἕλοι Μενέλαν,

κτανὼν δʼ Ἀγαμεμνόνιον

κρᾶτʼ ἐνέγκοι

Ἑλένᾳ κακόγαμβρον ἐς χέρας γόον,
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ὃς ἐπὶ πόλιν, ὃς ἐπὶ

γᾶν Τροΐαν χιλιόναυν

ἤλυθʼ ἔχων στρατείαν.

Rhesus. Euripides. ed. Gilbert Murray. Oxford. 1913.

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

Translations (3)

Rhesus Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 254 focus

Chorus

Which of the Achaeans will the earth-treading murderer slay

in their beds, as he pretends to be a four-footed beast on the ground? May he lay Menelaus low, slay Agamemnon and bring his head
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to Helen’s hands, causing her to lament her evil kinsman, who has come against my city, against the land of Troy with his army of a thousand ships.
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Rhesus Perseus (Euripides. The Rhesus of Euripides. Murray, Gilbert, translator. London: George Allen and Company, Ltd., 1913.) — 254 focus

CHORUS.

Whom will he stab a-sleeping, whom,

The quick grey wolf, the crawling doom?
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¹

Grant that he slay the Spartan! Nay,

Or Agamemnon’s head and plume

²

To Helen bear at dawn of day!
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A lightsome dawn to hear her wail

Her brother sworn, her King who came

To Ilion with his thousand sail,

And swords, and flame! As the song ends DOLON reappears, in the disguise of a wolf. The Guards gather round him, bidding him godspeed as he crawls off in the dark towards the Greek camp. Meantime from the direction of Mount Ida has entered a SHEPHERD who goes to HECTOR’S door and calls. The Guards seeing him return to their places.

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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