Euripides, Ion, Edward P. Coleridge (Translator), 205

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(First) Chorus

I am turning my eyes in every direction. Behold the rout of the giants carved on these walls of stone.
205

(Fourth) Chorus

Yes, yes, good friends, I am looking.

(Fifth) Chorus

Dost see her standing over Enceladus brandishing her shield with the Gorgon’s head?
210

(Sixth) Chorus

I see Pallas, my own goddess.

(Seventh) Chorus

Again, dost see the massy thunderbolt all aflame in the far-darting hands of Zeus?

(Eighth) Chorus

I do; ’tis blasting with its flame Mimas, that deadly foe.
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(Ninth) Chorus

Bromius too, the god of revelry, is slaying another of the sons of Earth with his thyrsus of ivy, never meant for battle.

Ion. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1906.

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Current edition Perseus

Ion (English) (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906.)

Editions (4)

Ἴων Perseus (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. II. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913. (Reprinted 1921-1962)) — 205 focus

Χορός

— πάντᾳ τοι βλέφαρον διώ-
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κω. σκέψαι κλόνον ἐν τείχεσ-

σι λαΐνοισι Γιγάντων.

— ὦ φίλαι, ὧδε δερκόμεσθα.

— λεύσσεις οὖν ἐπʼ Ἐγκελάδῳ

γοργωπὸν πάλλουσαν ἴτυν —
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— λεύσσω Παλλάδʼ, ἐμὰν θεόν.

— τί γάρ; κεραυνὸν ἀμφίπυρον

ὄβριμον ἐν Διὸς

ἑκηβόλοισι χερσίν;

— ὁρῶ· τὸν δάϊον
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Μίμαντα πυρὶ καταιθαλοῖ.

— καὶ Βρόμιος ἄλλον ἀπολέμοι-

σι κισσίνοισι βάκτροις

ἐναίρει Γᾶς τέκνων ὁ Βακχεύς.

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.)