Euripides Ion 1048

ed. Gilbert Murray

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Χορός

Εἰνοδία θύγατερ Δάματρος, ἃ τῶν

νυκτιπόλων ἐφόδων ἀνάσσεις

καὶ μεθαμερίων, ὅδωσον
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δυσθανάτων κρατήρων πλη-

ρώματʼ ἐφʼ οἷσι πέμπει

πότνια πότνιʼ ἐμὰ χθονίας

Γοργοῦς λαιμοτόμων ἀπὸ

σταλαγμῶν
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τῷ τῶν Ἐρεχθεϊδᾶν

δόμων ἐφαπτομένῳ·

μηδέ ποτʼ ἄλλος ἄλλων ἀπʼ οἴ-

κων πόλεως ἀνάσσοι

πλὴν τῶν εὐγενετᾶν Ἐρεχθειδᾶν.
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Ion. Euripides. ed. Gilbert Murray. Oxford. 1913.

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Current edition Perseus

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

Editions (3)

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.)

No corresponding passage available

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.)

No corresponding passage available

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.)

No corresponding passage available

Translations (4)

Ion Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906.) — 1048 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,
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no! none save noble Erechtheus’ sons!
1060

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

No corresponding passage available

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

No corresponding passage available

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1852; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (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.) — 1048 focus

Göttin, am Dreiweg waltend, o Kind Demeter's,

Die du den Pfaden der Nacht gebietest

Und den Pfaden des Tag's, o lenke die Fülle der todbringenden Becher zum Ziele, wohin sie meine

Hohe Gebieterin sendet, - des Bluts
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Tropfen vom Nacken der erdgebornen Gorgo, -

Zu dem, der kühn nach dem Thron

Der Erechthiden begehrt!

Daß doch ein andrer Sproß andern Stamms

Nimmer die Stadt beherrsche,
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Als ein Sohn aus Erechtheus' edlem Blut!

Erste Gegenstrophe.