Euripides Ion 714

ed. Gilbert Murray

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Χορός

ἰὼ δειράδες Παρνασοῦ πέτρας

ἔχουσαι σκόπελον οὐράνιόν θʼ ἕδραν,
715

ἵνα Βάκχιος ἀμφιπύρους ἀνέχων πεύκας

λαιψηρὰ πηδᾷ νυκτιπόλοις ἅμα σὺν Βάκχαις,

μή ποτʼ εἰς ἐμὰν πόλιν ἵκοιθʼ ὁ παῖς,

νέαν δʼ ἁμέραν ἀπολιπὼν θάνοι.
720

στενομένα γὰρ ἂν πόλις ἔχοι σκῆψιν

ξενικὸν ἐσβολὰν

ἁλίσας ὁ πάρος ἀρχαγὸς ὢν

Ἐρεχθεὺς ἄναξ.

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.)

No corresponding passage available

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.)

No corresponding passage available

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.) — 714 focus

Chorus

Ho! ye peaks of Parnassus

that rear your rocky heads to heaven, where Bacchus with uplifted torch of blazing pine bounds nimbly amid his bacchanals, that range by night! Never to my city come this boy!
715

let him die and leave his young life as it dawns! For should our city fall on evil days, this bringing-in of strangers would supply it with a reason. Enough, enough for us Erechtheus’ line that erst held sway!
720

Ion (OCR draft) Experimental (Ion. Robert Potter's English verse translation, first published in 1781–1783; text from the 1808 Oxford printing.)

No corresponding passage available

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.) — 714 focus

Da, wo Parnassos' Berghaupt empor

Mit Felsklippen zu dem himmlischen Size ſteigt,

Wo Bacchios, flammende Fackeln schwingend umher,
705

In raschem Tanz mit nachtlichschwarmenden Bacchinnen hupft.

Komme der Knabe doch nimmer in meine Stadt,

Nein, in der Blüthe noch welke sein junger Tag!

Denn Ursache zu seufzen fånd' unsre Stadt,

Drångten sich Fremdlinge ein.
710

Uns genügt, der vordem Führer war,

Erechtheus, der Fürst.

Kreusa. Ein Greis. Der Chor.

Kreusa.