Euripides Ion 1074

ed. Gilbert Murray

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

View: By Scene

← Previous Next →

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.

Ion. Euripides. ed. Gilbert Murray. Oxford. 1913.

Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.

Funding provided by The Annenberg CPB/Project.

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.) — 1074 focus

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

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.) — 1074 focus

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.