Euripides Ion 492

ed. Gilbert Murray

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Χορός

ὦ Πανὸς θακήματα καὶ

παραυλίζουσα πέτρα

μυχώδεσι Μακραῖς,

ἵνα χοροὺς στείβουσι ποδοῖν
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Ἀγλαύρου κόραι τρίγονοι

στάδια χλοερὰ πρὸ Παλλάδος

ναῶν, συρίγγων

ὑπʼ αἰόλας ἰαχᾶς

ὕμνων, ὅτʼ ἀναλίοις
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συρίζεις, ὦ Πάν,

τοῖς σοῖσιν ἐν ἄντροις,

ἵνα τεκοῦσά τις Φοίβῳ

παρθένος, ὦ μελέα, βρέφος,

πτανοῖς ἐξόρισεν θοίναν

θηρσί τε φοινίαν δαῖτα, πικρῶν γάμων
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ὕβριν· οὔτʼ ἐπὶ κερκίσιν οὔτε λόγοις

φάτιν ἄιον εὐτυχίας μετέχειν

θεόθεν τέκνα θνατοῖς.

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.) — 492 focus

Chorus

Ye haunts of Pan, and rocks hard by the grots of Macrae,

where Agraulos’ daughters three trip it lightly o’er the green grass-lawns before the shrine of Pallas, to the music of the piper’s varied note,
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what time thou, Pan, art piping in those caves of thine, where a maiden once that had a child by Phoebus, unhappy mother! exposed her babe, forced issue of her woful wooing,
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for birds to tear and beasts to rend, a bloody banquet! Never have I seen it told in woven tale or legend that children born to gods by daughters of earth have any share in bliss.
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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.)

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.) — 492 focus

Du geheiligte Ståtte Pan's¹
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Und du nachbarlicher Fels

In dem klüftigen Makrå,²

Wo die drei Jungfrauen, Agraulos'³

Töchter, im Chortanz schwingen den Fuß

Ueber grånende Bahnen am
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Tempel Athene's, wann zur wechselnden

Weise der Feldschalmeien, o Pan,

Du den Gesang in deinen Felsengrotten flotest,

Wo dem Apollon eine Jungfrau den Sohn

Gebar und den Vågeln zum Mahl und den Thieren zu blutigem Raub
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Dahingab, der bittern Liebe schmachvolle Frucht!

Niemals hort' ich am Webestuhl,

Noch in Gesprächen, es lachle das Glück

Söhnen der Götter, dem Schooße von sterblichen Müttern entsprossen.

Ion. Der Chor.

Jon.