Euripides, Rhesus, ed. Gilbert Murray, 820

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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
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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.

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.)) — 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.
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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 Perseus (Euripides. The Rhesus of Euripides. Murray, Gilbert, translator. London: George Allen and Company, Ltd., 1913.) — 820 focus

LEADER
(grovelling before HECTOR)¹

Woe, woe! It was for thee, only for thee,
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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,
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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
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Or word I have offended, let me bleed!

Bury me here alive! I ask no pardon.

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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