Euripides Ion 676

ed. Gilbert Murray

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Χορός

ὁρῶ δάκρυα καὶ πενθίμους

ἀλαλαγὰς στεναγμάτων τʼ ἐσβολάς,

ὅταν ἐμὰ τύραννος εὐπαιδίαν

πόσιν ἔχοντʼ εἰδῇ,

αὐτὴ δʼ ἄπαις ᾖ καὶ λελειμμένη τέκνων.
680

τίνʼ, ὦ παῖ πρόμαντι Λατοῦς, ἔχρη-

σας ὑμνῳδίαν;

πόθεν ὁ παῖς ὅδʼ ἀμφὶ ναοὺς σέθεν

τρόφιμος ἐξέβα; γυναικῶν τίνος;

οὐ γάρ με σαίνει θέσφατα μή τινʼ ἔχῃ δόλον.
685

δειμαίνω συμφοράν,

ἐφʼ ὅ ποτε βάσεται.

ἄτοπος ἄτοπα γὰρ δίδωσί μοι,
690

τὸ δʼ ἔτʼ εὔφημʼ ἔχει,

δόλον τύχαν θʼ, ὁ παῖς

ἄλλων τραφεὶς ἐξ αἱμάτων.

τίς οὐ τάδε ξυνοίσεται;

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.) — 676 focus

Chorus

Weeping and lamentation and the beginning of mourning I foresee, when my mistress shall see her lord blest with a son,

while she is childless and forlorn. What was this oracle thou didst vouchsafe, prophetic son of Latona? Whence came this boy, thy foster-child who lingers in thy temple? who was his mother?
680

I like not thy oracle; I fear there is some treachery. In terror I await the issue of this chance;
685

for strange are these tidings and strange it is that the god declares them to me. There is guile connected with this waif’s fortune. All must allow that.
690

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.) — 676 focus

Thränen erblicken wir und was herber Gram

Anstimmt in Seufzer ausbrechend, wann¹

Unsre Gebieterin vernimmt, daß ein Sohn

Ihrem Gemahl erblüht,

Indeß sie selbst sich kinderlos, verlassen sieht.
675

O Sohn Leto's, Gott der Seher,

(Beide ab.)

Welch einen Spruch sangest du?

Woher stammt der Jungling, der im Heiligthum

Bei dir großgenährt wurde, von welchem Weib?

Denn mich bethårt kein Seherspruch: ein Trug lauert hier!
680

Ich zittre voll Angst, wie dies

Geschick enden wird.

Denn, traun, Seltsames sagte mir der Seltsame.²

Dem Knaben lacht ein trügend Gluck;

Er ward aus fremdem Blut gezeugt.
685

Wer dachte hier nicht gleich mit uns?

Gegenstrophe.