Euripides Ion 1553

ed. Gilbert Murray

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Ἀθήνα

μὴ φεύγετʼ· οὐ γὰρ πολεμίαν με φεύγετε,

ἀλλʼ ἔν τʼ Ἀθήναις κἀνθάδʼ οὖσαν εὐμενῆ.

ἐπώνυμος δὲ σῆς ἀφικόμην χθονὸς
1555

Παλλάς, δρόμῳ σπεύσασʼ Ἀπόλλωνος πάρα,

ὃς ἐς μὲν ὄψιν σφῷν μολεῖν οὐκ ἠξίου,

μὴ τῶν πάροιθε μέμψις ἐς μέσον μόλῃ,

ἡμᾶς δὲ πέμπει τοὺς λόγους ὑμῖν φράσαι·

ὡς ἥδε τίκτει σʼ ἐξ Ἀπόλλωνος πατρός,
1560

δίδωσι δʼ οἷς ἔδωκεν, οὐ φύσασί σε,

ἀλλʼ ὡς νομίζῃ ʼς οἶκον εὐγενέστατον.

ἐπεὶ δʼ ἀνεῴχθη πρᾶγμα μηνυθὲν τόδε,

θανεῖν σε δείσας μητρὸς ἐκ βουλευμάτων

καὶ τήνδε πρὸς σοῦ, μηχαναῖς ἐρρύσατο.
1565

ἔμελλε δʼ αὐτὰ διασιωπήσας ἄναξ

ἐν ταῖς Ἀθήναις γνωριεῖν ταύτην τε σήν,

σέ θʼ ὡς πέφυκας τῆσδε καὶ Φοίβου πατρός.

ἀλλʼ ὡς περαίνω πρᾶγμα, καὶ χρησμοὺς θεοῦ,

ἐφʼ οἷσιν ἔζευξʼ ἅρματʼ, εἰσακούσατον.
1570

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))

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.)

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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.) — 1553 focus

Athena

Fly not! I am no foe ye seek to shun, but alike in Athens and this place your kindly friend.

’Tis I, Pallas, after whom your land is named, that am here, by Apollo sent in headlong haste; for he thought not fit to appear before you twain, lest his coming might provoke reproaches for the past; but me he sends to proclaim to you his words,
1555

how that this is thy mother, and Apollo thy sire; while thyself he doth bestow, as seems him good, not indeed on him that begat thee, nay, but that he may bring thee to a house of high repute. For when this matter was brought to light, he devised a way of deliverance,
1560

fearing that thou wouldst be slain by thy mother’s wiles and she by thine. Now it was King Apollo’s wish to keep this matter secret awhile, and then in Athens to acknowledge this lady as thy mother and thyself as the child of her and Phoebus. But to end the business and discharge his oracles for the god,
1565

I bid you hearken; for such was my purpose in yoking my chariot-steeds.
1570

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.) — 1553 focus

Fleuch nicht! Es ist ja keine Feindin, die du fliehst,

Nein, hier, wie dort in Atthis, eure Gönnerin.¹
1530

Den Namen tragend deiner Stadt, erschien ich hier,

Pallas, von Phobos hergeeilt in raschem Lauf,

Der selbst vor euer Auge sich zu treten scheut,

Damit ihr ihn nicht tadelnd an Vergangnes mahnt,

Und mich gesendet, um das Wort euch kundzuthun,
1535

Daß dieses Weib dem Vater Phobos dich gebar,

Und er dich jenem schenkte, der dich nicht gezeugt,

Nur daß ein hohes Fürstenhaus dein Erbe sei.

Doch als die Sache völlig kund und offen war:

Besorgt, du müssest sterben durch der Mutter List
1540

Und sie von deinen Hånden, schritt er rettend ein.

Der Fürst Apollon wollte, dies verheimlichend,

Erst in Athen enthullen, daß sie Deine sei

Und du von ihr entsprossen und aus Phobos' Blut,

Doch um die Sache, der zulieb' ich mein Gespann
1545

Anschirrt', und Phobos' Gotteswort zu enden, hort!