Euripides Ion 695

ed. Gilbert Murray

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Χορός

— φίλαι, πότερʼ ἐμᾷ δεσποίνᾳ
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τάδε τορῶς ἐς οὖς γεγωνήσομεν;

πόσιν, ἐν ᾧ τὰ πάντʼ ἔχουσʼ ἐλπίδων

μέτοχος ἦν, τλάμων,

— νῦν δʼ ἣ μὲν ἔρρει συμφοραῖς, ὃ δʼ εὐτυχεῖ.

— πολιὸν ἐσπεσοῦσα γῆρας, πόσις δʼ
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— ἀτίετος φίλων.

— μέλεος, ὃς θυραῖος ἐλθὼν δόμους,

μέγαν ἐς ὄλβον, οὐκ ἴσωσεν τύχης

(— ὄλοιτʼ, ὄλοιτο) πότνιαν ἐξαπαφὼν ἐμάν.

— καὶ θεοῖσιν μὴ τύχοι
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καλλίφλογα πέλανον ἐπὶ

πυρὶ καθαγνίσας· τὸ δʼ ἐμὸν εἴσεται,

ὅσον ἀμᾶς ἔφυν

τυραννίδος φίλα.
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— ἦ δὴ πέλας δείπνων κυρεῖ

παῖς καὶ πατὴρ νέος νέων.

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.) — 695 focus

Chorus

Shall we, good friends, throw off disguise and tell our mistress this story about her husband in whom her all was centred and whose hopes, poor lady, she once shared? But now in misery is she plunged, while he enjoys the smiles of fortune;
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to hoary eld she drifteth fast, while he, her lord, pays no regard to his loved ones,—the wretch, who came an alien to her house to share great wealth and failed to guard her fortunes! Perdition catch this traitor to my lady!
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never may he succeed in offering to the gods upon their blazing altar a hallowed cake with flames that augur well! He shall know to his cost my regard
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for my mistress. Now are sire and new-found son bent on the approaching feast.
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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.) — 695 focus

Freundinnen, soll ich's nicht meiner Gebieterin

Mit Donnerlaut in's Ohr rufen von

Ihrem Gemahle, der ihr einst Alles war,

Und dessen Hoffnungen
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Sie theilte? Er ward glucklich, sie vergeht im Leid,

Ein Raub schon des grauen Alters :

Doch ihn, den Unseligen,¹

Ehren wir Freunde nicht, ihn, der von fern' in's Haus

Kommend zu Glanz und Macht, sein Loos von ihrem schied.
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Tod über ihn, der meine Herrin ſchnod' hinterging!

O laßt es ihm nie gedeihn,

Wenn er im Feuer euch,

Himmlische Machte, hellflammende Kuchen weiht!

Die Herrschaft lieb' ich nicht, in der²
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Am Mahle sich der neue Sohn,

Gesellt dem neuen Vater, labt:

Schlußgesang.