Euripides Ion 1201

ed. Gilbert Murray

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καὶ ταῖς μὲν ἄλλαις ἄνοσος ἦν λοιβὴ θεοῦ·
ἣ δʼ ἕζετʼ ἔνθʼ ὁ καινὸς ἔσπεισεν γόνος,
ποτοῦ τʼ ἐγεύσατʼ, εὐθὺς εὔπτερον δέμας
ἔσεισε κἀβάκχευσεν, ἐκ δʼ ἔκλαγξʼ ὄπα
ἀξύνετον αἰάζουσʼ· ἐθάμβησεν δὲ πᾶς
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θοινατόρων ὅμιλος ὄρνιθος πόνους.
θνῄσκει δʼ ἀπασπαίρουσα, φοινικοσκελεῖς
χηλὰς παρεῖσα. γυμνὰ δʼ ἐκ πέπλων μέλη
ὑπὲρ τραπέζης ἧχʼ ὁ μαντευτὸς γόνος,
βοᾷ δέ· Τίς μʼ ἔμελλεν ἀνθρώπων κτενεῖν;
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σήμαινε, πρέσβυ· σὴ γὰρ ἡ προθυμία,
καὶ πῶμα χειρὸς σῆς ἐδεξάμην πάρα.
εὐθὺς δʼ ἐρευνᾷ γραῖαν ὠλένην λαβών,
ἐπʼ αὐτοφώρῳ πρέσβυν ὡς ἔχονθʼ ἕλοι.
ὤφθη δὲ καὶ κατεῖπʼ ἀναγκασθεὶς μόγις
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τόλμας Κρεούσης πώματός τε μηχανάς.
θεῖ δʼ εὐθὺς ἔξω συλλαβὼν θοινάτορας
ὁ πυθόχρηστος Λοξίου νεανίας,
κἀν κοιράνοισι Πυθικοῖς σταθεὶς λέγει·
Ὦ Γαῖα σεμνή, τῆς Ἐρεχθέως ὕπο,
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ξένης γυναικός, φαρμάκοισι θνῄσκομεν.
Δελφῶν δʼ ἄνακτες ὥρισαν πετρορριφῆ
θανεῖν ἐμὴν δέσποιναν οὐ ψήφῳ μιᾷ,
τὸν ἱερὸν ὡς κτείνουσαν ἔν τʼ ἀνακτόροις
φόνον τιθεῖσαν. πᾶσα δὲ ζητεῖ πόλις
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τὴν ἀθλίως σπεύσασαν ἀθλίαν ὁδόν·
παίδων γὰρ ἐλθοῦσʼ εἰς ἔρον Φοίβου πάρα,
τὸ σῶμα κοινῇ τοῖς τέκνοις ἀπώλεσεν.

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

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

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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.)

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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.)

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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.)

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Translations (4)
Ion Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906.) — 1201 focus
Now all the rest received no hurt from the god’s libation, but one that settled on the spot where the son newfound had poured his wine, no sooner had tasted thereof, than convulsions seized her feathered form and she went triad, and screaming aloud uttered
strange unwonted cries; and all the feasters gathered there marvelled to see the bird’s cruel agony, for she lay writhing in the toils of death, and her red claws relaxed their hold.
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Forthwith the son, vouchsafed by oracles, bared his arm by casting off his cloak and stretched it out across the board
crying Who was it strove to slay me? Proclaim it, old sirrah, for thine was the officious zeal and thine the hand from which I took the cup. With that he caught the grey-beard by the arm and set to searching him that he might take the old man red-handed in the act.
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So was he detected, and under strong constraint declared Creusa’s daring deed and all the trick of the poisoned draught. Forth rushed the young man, whom the oracle of Loxias to his sire assigned, taking with him the banqueters, and standing mid the Delphic nobles made harangue,
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O! hallowed soil, a stranger woman, daughter of Erechtheus, seeks to poison me. And the lords of Delphi decreed by general vote that my mistress should be hurled from the rock to die, because she strove to slay the priest and compass his death in the temple.
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So now is the whole city seeking her, who hath to her sorrow sped a hapless journey; for, coming to crave the boon of offspring from Phoebus, she hath lost her life and children too.
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Ion (OCR draft) Experimental (Ion. Robert Potter's English verse translation, first published in 1781–1783; text from the 1808 Oxford printing.)

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

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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.) — 1201 focus
Nicht schlecht bekam den andern dieser Gottestrank; 1
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Nur Eine, die am Size, wo der neue Sohn
Gesprengt, vom Tranke nippte, schittelt sich sofort
Am Flugelleibe, ſchwirrt umher wie toll, und achzt
Und stöhnt in dumpfen Lauten; voll Entsezen sieht
Der Eingeladnen ganze Schaar des Vogels Qual.
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Er zappelt fort, senkt schlaff die Purpurfuße dann,
Und stirbt. Der gottgeschenkte Sohn streckt über Tisch
Den bloßen Arm aus seinem Oberkleide vor,
Lautrufend: „Wer auf Erden wollte meinen Tod?
Sprich, Alter: du ja thatest so geschäftig hier,
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Und deine Hand hat diesen Becher mir gereicht!"
Schnell faßt er seinen greisen Arm und forscht ihn aus,
Ihn darzustellen als ertappt auf solcher That.
Und überführt, bekennt er nothgedrungen kaum
Kreusens Unthat und des Tranks Geheimnisse.
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Da stürmt der Jungling, den Apollons Spruch enthullt,
Mit seinen Tischgenossen unverweilt hinaus,
Und tritt vor Pytho's Häupter hin, und spricht das Wort:
„O Erde, heil'ge, sterben sollten wir durch Gift, 2
Das uns Erechtheus' Tochter bot, ein fremdes Weib!"
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Die Fürsten Delphi's sezten dann einhellig fest,
Daß meine Herrin sterben soll vom Fels gestürzt,
Weil sie den Heil'gen todten, Mord in Phobos' Haus
Verüben wollte. Nach der Unheilvollen, die
Den Todespfad hereilte, spåht die ganze Stadt.
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Sie, die zu Phobos' Hause kam, nach einem Sohn
Verlangend, büßt ihr Leben sammt der Hoffnung ein. 3