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