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Euripides, Rhesus (ed. Gilbert Murray), line 1 (search)
It is a cloudy but moonlight night on the plain before Troy. The Trojans and their allies have won a decisive victory and are camping on the open field close to the Greek outposts. The scene is in front of a rude tent or hut that has been set up for HECTOR, the Trojan leader. A watch-fire burns low in front. Far off at the back can be seen rows of watch-fires in the Greek camp. The road to Troy is in front to the left; the road to Mount Ida leads far away to theTroy is in front to the left; the road to Mount Ida leads far away to the right. All is silence; then a noise outside. Enter tumultuously a band of Trojan Pickets. VARIOUS VOICES. (The dash - in these passages indicates a new speaker.) On to the Prince's quarters!-Ho! Who is awake? What man-at-arms, Or squire or groom?-Let Hector know New rumour of alarms From sentinels who stand at mark The four long watches of the dark, While others sleep.-Uplift thine head, O Hector! On thine elbow rise,
Euripides, Rhesus (ed. Gilbert Murray), line 164 (search)
r Automedon out of the battle (end of XVI.), and where Xanthos is given a human voice to warn his master of the coming of death (end of XIX.). The heroic age of Greece delighted in horses. Cf. those of Aeneas, Diomedes, Eumêlus, and Rhesus himself.! Murmurs of surprise. Yes, I need a great Prize. I am dicing for my life with Fate. HECTOR. 'Fore God, I am thy rival, if thy love Lies there. Undying was the breed thereof, And these shall never die, who bear to war Great Peleus' son, swift gleaming like a star. Poseidon, rider of the wild sea-drift, Tamed them, men say, and gave them for his gift To Peleus.-None the less, since I have stirred Hopes, I will baulk them not. I pledge my word, Achilles' steeds, a rare prize, shall be thine. DOLON. I thank thee.-'Tis indeed a prize more fine Than all in Troy.-Grudge me not that; there be Guerdons abundant for a Prince like thee. Exit HECTOR.
Euripides, Rhesus (ed. Gilbert Murray), line 488 (search)
honour in their host? HECTOR. Next, to my seeming, Ajax hath the most, Or Diomede.-But Odysseus is a tough And subtle fox, and brave; aye, brave enough. No man of them hath harmed us more than he. He climbed here to Athena's sanctuary P. 27, l. 501 ff. These three achievements of Odysseus are all in the traditional saga. The Rapt of the Palladium, or figure of Pallas, by Odysseus and Diomedes, was in an old lost epic, called The Little Iliad; the Begging in Troy in the Little Iliad and also in Odyssey IV. 242 ff.; the great ambuscades in Odyssey IV. 290 ff., VIII. 493 ff., and in Odysseus's own feigned story, XIV. 468 ff. According to our tradition they belong to a later period of the war than the death of Rhesus, but perhaps the sequence was different, or not so definite, at the time of this play. One night, and stole her image clean away To the Argive ships. Yes, and another day, Guised as a wandering priest, in rags, he came
Euripides, Rhesus (ed. Gilbert Murray), line 642 (search)
ENA. Have comfort thou! Doth not the Cyprian's eye Mark all thy peril and keep watch above Thy battles? How shall I forget the love I owe thee, and thy faithful offices? To crown this day and all its victories, Lo, I have guided here to Troy a strong Helper, the scion of the Muse of song And Strymon's flood, the crownèd stream of Thrace. PARIS (standing like one in a dream). Indeed thy love is steadfast, and thy grace Bounteous to Troy and me. Thou art the joy And jewel of my days, which I to Troy Have brought, and made thee hers.-O Cyprian, I heard, not clearly,-'twas some talk that ran Among the pickets-spies had passed some spot Close by the camp. The men who saw them not Talk much, and they who saw, or might have seen, Can give no sign nor token. It had been My purpose to find Hector where he lay. ATHENA. Fear nothing. All is well in Troy's array. Hector is
Euripides, Rhesus (ed. Gilbert Murray), line 833 (search)
? Not one; 'tis we, behind, Are wounded, and some worse than wounded, blind Forever to the sunlight. When we seek Our vengeance, we shall go not to the Greek. What stranger in that darkness could have trod Straight to where Rhesus lay-unless some God Pointed his path? They knew not, whispered not, Rhesus had ever come. . . . 'Tis all a plot. HECTOR (steadied and courteous again). Good allies I have had since first the Greek Set foot in Troy, and never heard them speak Complaint of Hector. Thou wilt be the first. I have not, by God's mercy, such a thirst For horses as to murder for their sake. He turns to his own men. Odysseus! Yet again Odysseus! Take All the Greek armies, is there one but he Could have devised, or dared, this devilry? I fear him; yea, fear in mine own despite, Lest Dolon may have crossed him in the night And perished; 'tis so long he cometh not. THR