Euripides' RHESUS Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Hector: Aye, and I scorn them not; enough have I to do in driving them away.

Rhesus: Well, if we slay these, our task is fully done.

Hector: Leave not the present need, nor look to distant schemes.

Rhesus: Thou art, it seems, content to suffer tamely and make no return.

Hector: I rule an empire wide enough, e'en though I here abide. But
on the left wing or the right or in the centre of the allies thou
mayst plant thy shield and marshal thy troops.

Rhesus: Alone will I face the foe, Hector. But if thou art ashamed,
after all thy previous toil, to have no share in firing their ships'
prows, place me face to face at least with Achilles and his host.

Hector: 'Gainst him thou canst not range thy eager spear.

Rhesus: Why, 'twas surely said he sailed to Ilium.

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