Euripides, Rhesus, ed. Gilbert Murray, 692

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Χορός

—τίς ἀνδρῶν ὁ βάς;

τίς ὁ μέγα θρασὺς ἐπεύξεται

χέρα φυγὼν ἐμάν;

πόθεν νιν κυρήσω;
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τίνι προσεικάσω,

ὅστις διʼ ὄρφνης ἦλθʼ ἀδειμάντῳ ποδὶ

διά τε τάξεων καὶ φυλάκων ἕδρας;

Θεσσαλὸς ἢ

παραλίαν Λοκρῶν νεμόμενος πόλιν;
700

ἢ νησιώτην σποράδα κέκτηται βίον;

τίς ἦν; πόθεν; ποίας πάτρας;

ποῖον δʼ εὔχεται τὸν ὕπατον θεῶν;

— ἆρʼ ἔστʼ Ὀδυσσέως τοὔργον ἢ τίνος τόδε;

εἰ τοῖς πάροιθε χρὴ τεκμαίρεσθαι· τί μήν;
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— δοκεῖς γάρ; — τί μὴν οὔ;

— θρασὺς γοῦν ἐς ἡμᾶς.

— τίνʼ ἀλκήν; τίνʼ αἰνεῖς; — Ὀδυσσῆ.

— μὴ κλωπὸς αἴνει φωτὸς αἱμύλον δόρυ.

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.)) — 692 focus

Chorus

Who was that man who slipped away? Who was he that will loudly boast his daring in escaping me?

How shall I catch him now? To whom shall I liken him, the man who came by night with fearless step passing through our ranks and the guard we set? Is he a Thessalian or
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a dweller in some seacoast town of Locris ? Or does he make his living among the islands scattered in the sea? Who was he? Where from? What is his fatherland? What god does he avow as lord of all the rest?
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Whose work is this? is it the deed of Odysseus?

If one may conjecture from his former acts, of course it is.
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Do you think so really?

Why, of course.

He is a bold foe for us.

What strength? Whom are you praising?

Odysseus.

Do not praise the crafty weapons that a robber uses.

Rhesus Perseus (Euripides. The Rhesus of Euripides. Murray, Gilbert, translator. London: George Allen and Company, Ltd., 1913.) — 692 focus

The Thracians go off in pursuit. Meantime the original Guards who form the Chorus have hastened back. The two Greeks are presently seen crossing at the back in a different direction.

CHORUS.

Who was the man that passed?

Who, that, so madly bold,

Even as I held him fast,

Laughed, and I loosed my hold?

Where shall I find him now?
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What shall I deem of him,

To steal thro’ the guards a-row,

Quaking not, eye nor limb,

On thro’ the starlight dim?

Is he of Thessaly ,

Born by the Locrian sea,
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Or harvester of some starved island’s corn?

What man hath seen his face?

What was his name or race,

What the high God¹ by whom his sires have sworn?

DIVERS GUARDS
(talking).

This night must be Odysseus’ work, or whose?—

Odysseus? Aye, to judge by ancient use.—
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Odysseus surely!—That is thy belief?—

What else? It seems he hath no fear

Of such as we!—Whom praise ye there?

Whose prowess? Say!—Odysseus.—Nay,

Praise not the secret stabbing of a thief!

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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