Euripides Ion 1090

ed. Gilbert Murray

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Χορός

ὁρᾶθʼ ὅσοι δυσκελάδοι-
1090

σιν κατὰ μοῦσαν ἰόντες ἀείδεθʼ ὕμνοις

ἁμέτερα λέχεα καὶ γάμους

Κύπριδος ἀθέμιτας ἀνοσίους, ὅσον

εὐσεβίᾳ κρατοῦμεν

ἄδικον ἄροτον ἀνδρῶν.
1095

παλίμφαμος ἀοιδὰ

καὶ μοῦσʼ εἰς ἄνδρας ἴτω

δυσκέλαδος ἀμφὶ λέκτρων.

δείκνυσι γὰρ ὁ Διὸς ἐκ

παίδων ἀμνημοσύναν,
1100

οὐ κοινὰν τεκέων τύχαν

οἴκοισι φυτεύσας

δεσποίνᾳ· πρὸς δʼ Ἀφροδί-

ταν ἄλλαν θέμενος χάριν

νόθου παιδὸς ἔκυρσεν.
1105

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.) — 1090 focus

Chorus

Look to it, all ye bards, who, in malicious strains, expose our amours and unholy bonds of lawless love; see how far our
1090

virtue surpasses man’s disloyalty. Change the burden of your song and keep your spiteful verse to brand man’s faithlessness. For this scion of the stock of Zeus
1095

shows himself a heedless wight, denying to the mistress of his halls the lot of mutual offspring, and, paying all his court to some strange love,
1100

hath gotten him a bastard son.
1105

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.) — 1090 focus

Nun sehet, ihr, die, den Gesang schåndend, in wild

Låsternden Liedern von unsrer Treue,
1070

Von unerlaubter heimlicher,

Ruchloser Frauenliebe singen:

Viel heiliger sind wir, treuer,

Als die falschen Männer.

Widerrufend ertone
1075

Ein Schmachlied über gebrochne

Treue, strafend die Männer!

Denn undankbare Gesinnung

Zeigt hier der Enkel des Zeus:

Nicht gemeinsamer Kinder Glück
1080

Erzielt er im Hause

Mit der Herrin; anderer Buhlschaft

Zuwendend der Liebe Freuden,

Zeugt der Falsche den Bastard.

Ein Diener. Der Chor.

Der Diener.