Euripides Ion 1229

ed. Gilbert Murray

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Χορός

οὐκ ἔστʼ οὐκ ἔστιν θανάτου

παρατροπὰ μελέᾳ μοι·
1230

φανερὰ γὰρ φανερὰ τάδʼ ἤδη,

σπονδᾶς ἐκ Διονύσου,

βοτρύων θοᾶς ἐχίδνας

σταγόσι μειγνυμένας φόνῳ

φανερὰ θύματα νερτέρων,
1235

συμφοραὶ μὲν ἐμῷ βίῳ,

λεύσιμοι δὲ καταφθοραὶ δεσποίνᾳ.

τίνα φυγὰν πτερόεσσαν ἢ

χθονὸς ὑπὸ σκοτίων μυχῶν πορευθῶ,

θανάτου λεύσιμον ἄταν
1240

ἀποφεύγουσα, τεθρίππων

ὠκιστᾶν χαλᾶν ἐπιβᾶσʼ,

ἢ πρύμνας ἐπὶ ναῶν;

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.) — 1229 focus

Chorus

Ah me! I see no way at all to turn death’s

hand aside; all, all, ere this, is brought to light owing to that fatal draught of the wine-god’s juice mixed for death with drops of viper’s gore, quick to slay;
1230

detected is our offering to the dead; for me my life must end in woe, while death by stoning waits my mistress. How can I escape? Shall I take wings and fly away, or creep beneath the darksome caverns of the earth,
1235

striving to shun the doom of death by stoning? or shall I mount the car drawn by swiftest steeds, or embark upon a ship?
1240

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.) — 1229 focus

Keine Schuzwehr wider den Tod

Blieb mir, keine mir Armen!

Nun kam Alles zu Tage, nun,
1210

Durch todbringenden Trank bacchischer Trauben, dem¹

Sich die Tropfen vermählt, gråßlicher Schlange Gift!

Ja, dies Opfer der Höllen ist,

Meinem Leben ein Leid, enthult:

Tod der Steinigung bringt es meiner Herrin!
1215

Welche beschwingte Flucht entführt

Mich in der Erde düstersten Schooß,

Daß ich fliehe das schmachvolle Geschick,

Das mich bedroht? Soll ich dem schnellsten

Huse des Vierspanns oder des Schiff's
1220

Eilendem Kiel mich vertrauen?