Euripides, Rhesus, ed. Gilbert Murray, 41

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Χορός

— πύρʼ αἴθει στρατὸς Ἀργόλας,

Ἕκτορ, πᾶσαν ἀνʼ ὄρφναν,

διειπετῆ δὲ ναῶν πυρσοῖς σταθμά.

πᾶς δʼ Ἀγαμεμνονίαν προσέβα στρατὸς

ἐννύχιος θορύβῳ σκηνάν,
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νέαν τινʼ ἐφιέμενοι

βάξιν. οὐ γάρ πω πάρος ὧδʼ ἐφοβήθη

ναυσιπόρος στρατιά.

σοὶ δʼ, ὑποπτεύων τὸ μέλλον,

ἤλυθον ἄγγελος, ὡς
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μήποτʼ ἐς ἐμέ τινα μέμψιν εἴπῃς.

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))

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Rhesus Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 41 focus

Chorus

The long night through, Hector, the Argive army has kindled fires, and bright with torches shines the anchored fleet. To Agamemnon’s tent the whole army

move clamorously by night, eager for fresh orders; for never before has the sea-faring company been so alarmed. And so I was suspicious of what might happen
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and came to tell you, so that you may have no cause to blame me hereafter.
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Rhesus Perseus (Euripides. The Rhesus of Euripides. Murray, Gilbert, translator. London: George Allen and Company, Ltd., 1913.) — 41 focus

LEADER.
¹

Great beacons in the Argive line²

Have burned, my chief, through half the night.

The shipyard timbers³ seemed to shine.

Then, clear against the light,

Toward Agamemnon’s tent the whole
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Army in tumult seemed to roll,

As stirred by some strange voice, shoal after shoal.

A night of such discord

Was never seen. And we, in dread

What such things boded, turned and sped
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Hither; dost blame us, Lord?

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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