Euripides Ion 452

ed. Gilbert Murray

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Χορός

σὲ τὰν ὠδίνων λοχιᾶν

ἀνειλείθυιαν, ἐμὰν

Ἀθάναν, ἱκετεύω,

Προμηθεῖ Τιτᾶνι λοχευ-
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θεῖσαν κατʼ ἀκροτάτας

κορυφᾶς Διός, ὦ μάκαιρα Νίκα,

μόλε Πύθιον οἶκον,

Ὀλύμπου χρυσέων θαλάμων

πταμένα πρὸς ἀγυιάς,
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Φοιβήιος ἔνθα γᾶς

μεσσόμφαλος ἑστία

παρὰ χορευομένῳ τρίποδι

μαντεύματα κραίνει,

σὺ καὶ παῖς ἁ Λατογενής,
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δύο θεαὶ δύο παρθένοι,

κασίγνηται σεμναὶ Φοίβου.

ἱκετεύσατε δʼ, ὦ κόραι,

τὸ παλαιὸν Ἐρεχθέως

γένος εὐτεκνίας χρονίου καθαροῖς
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μαντεύμασι κῦρσαι.

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.)

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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.) — 452 focus

Chorus

On thee I call, Athena mine, at whose birth-throes no kindly goddess lent her aid,

delivered as thou wert by Titan Prometheus from the forehead of Zeus. Come, O lady Victory, come to the Pythian shrine, winging thy way from the gilded chambers of Olympus
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to the city’s streets, where Phoebus at his altar on the centre of the world brings his oracles to pass beside the dance-encircled tripod;
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come, too, thou daughter of Latona, together come, ye virgin goddesses, fair sisters of Phoebus! And be this your prayer, fair maidens, that the ancient house of Erechtheus
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may obtain by clear oracles the blessing of children, though late it come.
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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.) — 452 focus

zu dir, die der Geburten Qual
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Noch nie durchkampfte, zu dir

Fleh' ich, meiner Athene,

Die der Titan Prometheus einst¹

Aus Zeus' erhabenem Haupt

Entbunden, o göttliche Nika:²
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Zu dem pythischen Hause

Komm, von Olympos' goldenem Saal

Zu den Pfaden entschwebend,

Wo Phobos' heiliges Land,

Der Erde mittelster Herd,
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An dem Altar, den Reigen umziehn,

Orakel verkündet!

Ja du, komm mit der Leto Kind,³

Ihr zwei Göttinnen, zwei Jungfrau'n,

Und ehrwürdige Schwestern des Apollon!
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Und ihr, o Mädchen, ersleht

Des Erechtheus altem Geschlecht,

Daß endlich in klaren Orakeln das Gluck

Holdseliger Kinder ihm werde!

Gegenstrophe.