Euripides, Ion, Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator), 676

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Thränen erblicken wir und was herber Gram

Anstimmt in Seufzer ausbrechend, wann¹

Unsre Gebieterin vernimmt, daß ein Sohn

Ihrem Gemahl erblüht,

Indeß sie selbst sich kinderlos, verlassen sieht.
675

O Sohn Leto's, Gott der Seher,

(Beide ab.)

Welch einen Spruch sangest du?

Woher stammt der Jungling, der im Heiligthum

Bei dir großgenährt wurde, von welchem Weib?

Denn mich bethårt kein Seherspruch: ein Trug lauert hier!
680

Ich zittre voll Angst, wie dies

Geschick enden wird.

Denn, traun, Seltsames sagte mir der Seltsame.²

Dem Knaben lacht ein trügend Gluck;

Er ward aus fremdem Blut gezeugt.
685

Wer dachte hier nicht gleich mit uns?

Gegenstrophe.

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

Current edition Experimental

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)) — 676-724 focus

Χορός

ὁρῶ δάκρυα καὶ πενθίμους

ἀλαλαγὰς στεναγμάτων τʼ ἐσβολάς,

ὅταν ἐμὰ τύραννος εὐπαιδίαν

πόσιν ἔχοντʼ εἰδῇ,

αὐτὴ δʼ ἄπαις ᾖ καὶ λελειμμένη τέκνων.
680

τίνʼ, ὦ παῖ πρόμαντι Λατοῦς, ἔχρη-

σας ὑμνῳδίαν;

πόθεν ὁ παῖς ὅδʼ ἀμφὶ ναοὺς σέθεν

τρόφιμος ἐξέβα; γυναικῶν τίνος;

οὐ γάρ με σαίνει θέσφατα μή τινʼ ἔχῃ δόλον.
685

δειμαίνω συμφοράν,

ἐφʼ ὅ ποτε βάσεται.

ἄτοπος ἄτοπα γὰρ δίδωσί μοι,
690

τὸ δʼ ἔτʼ εὔφημʼ ἔχει,

δόλον τύχαν θʼ, ὁ παῖς

ἄλλων τραφεὶς ἐξ αἱμάτων.

τίς οὐ τάδε ξυνοίσεται;

695

Χορός

— φίλαι, πότερʼ ἐμᾷ δεσποίνᾳ
695

τάδε τορῶς ἐς οὖς γεγωνήσομεν;

πόσιν, ἐν ᾧ τὰ πάντʼ ἔχουσʼ ἐλπίδων

μέτοχος ἦν, τλάμων,

— νῦν δʼ ἣ μὲν ἔρρει συμφοραῖς, ὃ δʼ εὐτυχεῖ.

— πολιὸν ἐσπεσοῦσα γῆρας, πόσις δʼ
700

— ἀτίετος φίλων.

— μέλεος, ὃς θυραῖος ἐλθὼν δόμους,

μέγαν ἐς ὄλβον, οὐκ ἴσωσεν τύχης

(— ὄλοιτʼ, ὄλοιτο) πότνιαν ἐξαπαφὼν ἐμάν.

— καὶ θεοῖσιν μὴ τύχοι
705

καλλίφλογα πέλανον ἐπὶ

πυρὶ καθαγνίσας· τὸ δʼ ἐμὸν εἴσεται,

ὅσον ἀμᾶς ἔφυν

τυραννίδος φίλα.
710

— ἦ δὴ πέλας δείπνων κυρεῖ

παῖς καὶ πατὴρ νέος νέων.

714

Χορός

ἰὼ δειράδες Παρνασοῦ πέτρας

ἔχουσαι σκόπελον οὐράνιόν θʼ ἕδραν,
715

ἵνα Βάκχιος ἀμφιπύρους ἀνέχων πεύκας

λαιψηρὰ πηδᾷ νυκτιπόλοις ἅμα σὺν Βάκχαις,

μή ποτʼ εἰς ἐμὰν πόλιν ἵκοιθʼ ὁ παῖς,

νέαν δʼ ἁμέραν ἀπολιπὼν θάνοι.
720

στενομένα γὰρ ἂν πόλις ἔχοι σκῆψιν

ξενικὸν ἐσβολὰν

ἁλίσας ὁ πάρος ἀρχαγὸς ὢν

Ἐρεχθεὺς ἄναξ.

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.) — 676-720 focus

Chorus

Weeping and lamentation and the beginning of mourning I foresee, when my mistress shall see her lord blest with a son,

while she is childless and forlorn. What was this oracle thou didst vouchsafe, prophetic son of Latona? Whence came this boy, thy foster-child who lingers in thy temple? who was his mother?
680

I like not thy oracle; I fear there is some treachery. In terror I await the issue of this chance;
685

for strange are these tidings and strange it is that the god declares them to me. There is guile connected with this waif’s fortune. All must allow that.
690

695

Chorus

Shall we, good friends, throw off disguise and tell our mistress this story about her husband in whom her all was centred and whose hopes, poor lady, she once shared? But now in misery is she plunged, while he enjoys the smiles of fortune;
695

to hoary eld she drifteth fast, while he, her lord, pays no regard to his loved ones,—the wretch, who came an alien to her house to share great wealth and failed to guard her fortunes! Perdition catch this traitor to my lady!
700

never may he succeed in offering to the gods upon their blazing altar a hallowed cake with flames that augur well! He shall know to his cost my regard
705

for my mistress. Now are sire and new-found son bent on the approaching feast.
710

714

Chorus

Ho! ye peaks of Parnassus

that rear your rocky heads to heaven, where Bacchus with uplifted torch of blazing pine bounds nimbly amid his bacchanals, that range by night! Never to my city come this boy!
715

let him die and leave his young life as it dawns! For should our city fall on evil days, this bringing-in of strangers would supply it with a reason. Enough, enough for us Erechtheus’ line that erst held sway!
720

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.] 2. ἀλάςες σεναγμῶν εἰσβολάς.

2. [OCR note; compare the printed page.] L. ἄτοπος ἄτοπα γὰρ παραδίδωσί μοι.

Euripides Ion 676

Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator)

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