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Rhesus (683-720)

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It is not for you to know; for you will die today for your villainy.
Chorus
Will you not declare the password, before my sword finds its way to your heart?
Odysseus
Halt! Be of good heart.
Chorus
Come near. Strike, everyone!
Odysseus
What! have you slain Rhesus?
Chorus
No, but you, who came to slay us—
Odysseus
Stay, every man of you!
Chorus
No, no, lay on!
Odysseus
Ah! do not slay a friend!
Chorus
What is the password, then?
Odysseus
Phoebus.
Chorus
Right! every man hold back his spear!
Do you know where the men have gone?
Odysseus
Somewhere here I caught a sight of them.
Chorus
Close on their track each man of you! Or should we shout for aid?
[*]No, it would be strange conduct to disturb our friends with wild alarms by night. Exeunt Odysseus and Diomedes.
692
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
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?
Whose work is this? is it the deed of Odysseus?
If one may conjecture from his former acts, of course it is.
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.
710
Chorus
Once before he came into this city, with swimming bleary eyes, clad in rags and tatters, his sword hidden in his cloak.
And like some vagrant menial he slunk about begging his living, his head rough and dirty; and he spoke bitterly of the royal house of the Atreidae—as though he were really opposed to those chiefs!
Would, oh! would he had perished, as was his due, before he set foot on Phrygia’s soil!

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