Euripides, Ion, Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator), 1074

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Ihn mußt' ich scheun, welchen das Lied feiert, den Gott,¹

Wenn an den Bornen der schönen Reigen²

Den Fackelglanz in hehrer Nacht³
1055

Der Fremdling wach mitschauen durfte,⁴

Wo Reigen des Zeus gestirnter

Aether tanzt, Selene

Froh zu Reigen sich gürtet

Und die fünfzig Tochter des Nereus
1060

Und die Nymphen im Meere

Und im endloswogenden Strudel

Der Strome, verherrlichend dich,

Jungfrau, strahlend in goldnem Kranz,⁵

Und die heilige Mutter:⁶
1065

Hier hofft er den Thron zu gewinnen,

Eindringend in fremdes Erbe,

Phobos' flüchtiger Diener.

Zweite Gegenstrophe.

Ion. Euripides. Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator). . .

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German (J. J. C. Donner, 1852; OCR review) (OCR draft) (German) (Euripides. Deutsch in den Versmaßen der Urschrift. Volume 3, Heidelberg: C. F. Winter, 1852. Harvard OCR compared with an independent BSB copy. Native Donner verse citations, Murray reference cards, explicitly located notes and page facsimiles. Unresolved OCR, verse divisions, unlocated notes and printed errata are documented in the source review.)

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Editions (4)

Ἴων Perseus (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. II. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913. (Reprinted 1921-1962)) — 1048-1105 focus

Χορός

Εἰνοδία θύγατερ Δάματρος, ἃ τῶν

νυκτιπόλων ἐφόδων ἀνάσσεις

καὶ μεθαμερίων, ὅδωσον
1050

δυσθανάτων κρατήρων πλη-

ρώματʼ ἐφʼ οἷσι πέμπει

πότνια πότνιʼ ἐμὰ χθονίας

Γοργοῦς λαιμοτόμων ἀπὸ

σταλαγμῶν
1055

τῷ τῶν Ἐρεχθεϊδᾶν

δόμων ἐφαπτομένῳ·

μηδέ ποτʼ ἄλλος ἄλλων ἀπʼ οἴ-

κων πόλεως ἀνάσσοι

πλὴν τῶν εὐγενετᾶν Ἐρεχθειδᾶν.
1060

1061

Χορός

εἰ δʼ ἀτελὴς θάνατος σπουδαί τε δεσποί-

νας, ὅ τε καιρὸς ἄπεισι τόλμας,

ᾇ νῦν ἐλπὶς ἐφαίνετʼ, ἢ θη-

κτὸν ξίφος ἢ δαίμων ἐξά-

ψει βρόχον ἀμφὶ δειρήν,
1065

πάθεσι πάθεα δʼ ἐξανύτουσʼ

εἰς ἄλλας βιότου κάτει-

σι μορφάς.

οὐ γὰρ δόμων γʼ ἑτέρους

ἄρχοντας ἀλλοδαποὺς
1070

ζῶσά ποτʼ ὄμμασι ἐν φαεν-

ναῖς ἀνέχοιτʼ ἂν αὐγαῖς

ἁ τῶν εὐπατριδᾶν γεγῶσʼ οἴκων.

1074

Χορός

αἰσχύνομαι τὸν πολύυ-

μνον θεόν, εἰ παρὰ καλλιχόροισι παγαῖς
1075

λαμπάδα θεωρὸν εἰκάδων

ὄψεται ἐννύχιος ἄυπνος ὤν, ὅτε

καὶ Διὸς ἀστερωπὸς

ἀνεχόρευσεν αἰθήρ,

χορεύει δὲ σελάνα
1080

καὶ πεντήκοντα κόραι

Νηρέος, αἱ κατὰ πόντον

ἀενάων τε ποταμῶν

δίνας, χορευόμεναι

τὰν χρυσοστέφανον κόραν
1085

καὶ ματέρα σεμνάν·

ἵνʼ ἐλπίζει βασιλεύ-

σειν ἄλλων πόνον ἐσπεσὼν

ὁ Φοίβειος ἀλάτας.

1090

Χορός

ὁρᾶθʼ ὅσοι δυσκελάδοι-
1090

σιν κατὰ μοῦσαν ἰόντες ἀείδεθʼ ὕμνοις

ἁμέτερα λέχεα καὶ γάμους

Κύπριδος ἀθέμιτας ἀνοσίους, ὅσον

εὐσεβίᾳ κρατοῦμεν

ἄδικον ἄροτον ἀνδρῶν.
1095

παλίμφαμος ἀοιδὰ

καὶ μοῦσʼ εἰς ἄνδρας ἴτω

δυσκέλαδος ἀμφὶ λέκτρων.

δείκνυσι γὰρ ὁ Διὸς ἐκ

παίδων ἀμνημοσύναν,
1100

οὐ κοινὰν τεκέων τύχαν

οἴκοισι φυτεύσας

δεσποίνᾳ· πρὸς δʼ Ἀφροδί-

ταν ἄλλαν θέμενος χάριν

νόθου παιδὸς ἔκυρσεν.
1105

Ion, Greek text (M. A. Bayfield, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (The Greek text and dramatic structure of M. A. Bayfield's second edition of 1924 (first edition 1889), aligned by line to the Murray reference edition.)

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Ion, Greek text (A. W. Verrall, 1890) (OCR draft) Experimental (The Greek text and dramatic structure of A. W. Verrall's 1890 edition, aligned by line to the Murray reference edition.)

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Ion, Greek text (Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1926) (OCR draft) Experimental (Wilamowitz's 1926 Greek edition with its critical apparatus, aligned by line to the Murray reference edition.)

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Translations (3)

Ion Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906.) — 1048-1105 focus

Chorus

Daughter of Demeter, goddess of highways, queen as thou art of haunting powers of darkness,

oh! guide as well the hand that fills by day a cup of death, against those to whom my revered mistress is sending a philtre of the gore that dripped from hellish Gorgon’s severed head,
1050

yea, ’gainst him who would obtrude upon the halls of the Erechthidae. Never may alien, from alien stock, lord it o’er my city,
1055

no! none save noble Erechtheus’ sons!
1060

1061

Chorus

For if this deadly deed and my lady’s aims pass unfulfilled, and the right moment for her daring go by, and with it the hope which now sustains her, either will she seize the whetted knife

or fasten the noose about her neck, and by ending one sorrow by another will go down to other phases of existence. For never will that daughter of a noble line,
1065

while life is hers, endure within the sunshine of her eyes the sight of alien rulers in her halls.
1070

1074

Chorus

I blush for that god of song,

if this stranger is to witness the torch-dance, that heralds in the twentieth dawn, around Callichorus’ fair springs, a sleepless votary in midnight revels, what time the star-lit firmament of Zeus,
1075

the moon, and Nereus’ fifty daughters, that trip it lightly o’er the sea and the eternal rivers’ tides, join the dance in honour
1080

of the maiden with the crown of gold and her majestic mother; where this vagabond, by Phoebus favoured, thinks to reign, entering into other men’s hard toil.
1085

1090

Chorus

Look to it, all ye bards, who, in malicious strains, expose our amours and unholy bonds of lawless love; see how far our
1090

virtue surpasses man’s disloyalty. Change the burden of your song and keep your spiteful verse to brand man’s faithlessness. For this scion of the stock of Zeus
1095

shows himself a heedless wight, denying to the mistress of his halls the lot of mutual offspring, and, paying all his court to some strange love,
1100

hath gotten him a bastard son.
1105

Ion (OCR draft) Experimental (Ion. Robert Potter's English verse translation, first published in 1781–1783; text from the 1808 Oxford printing.)

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Ion, English translation (A. W. Verrall, 1890) (OCR draft) Experimental (A. W. Verrall's English verse translation, passage-aligned to the Murray reference edition.)

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Notes on the current edition

Ion

1. [OCR note; compare the printed page.] Der Gott ist der in den eleusinischen Geheimnissen mit Demeter und Persephone gemeinschaftlich verehrte Bacchos.

2. [OCR note; compare the printed page.] Bei dem Brunnen der schönen Reigen (φρέαρ καλέμενον Καλλίχορον) wurden von den Frauen Reigen aufgeführt und Lieder zu Ehren des Bacchos gesungen.

3. [OCR note; compare the printed page.] Die Festfeier beging man Nachts unter Fackelschein. Fremdlinge waren davon ausgeschlossen.

4. [OCR note; compare the printed page.] Der Fremdling ist Ion nach der Meinung des Chors.

5. [OCR note; compare the printed page.] Die Jungfrau, Persephone.

6. [OCR note; compare the printed page.] Die heilige Mutter, Demeter. η 1079. Ε. δείκνυσι γὰρ ὅδε Διὸς ὁὐκ παίδων.

Euripides Ion 1074

Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator)

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