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Lovely is the son of Leto,
whom she, the Delian, once bore in the fruitful valleys, golden-haired, skilled at the lyre; and also the one who glories in her well-aimed arrows.
1235
For the mother, leaving the famous birth-place, brought him from the ridges of the sea to the heights of
Parnassus
, with its gushing waters, which celebrate the revels for Dionysus. Here the dark-faced serpent
1240
with brightly colored back, his scales of bronze in the leaf-shaded laurel, huge monster of the earth, guarded Earth’s prophetic shrine. You killed him, o Phoebus, while still a baby,
1245
still leaping in the arms of your dear mother, and you entered the holy shrine, and sit on the golden tripod, on your truthful throne
1250
distributing prophecies from the gods to mortals, up from the sanctuary, neighbor of Castalia’s streams, as you dwell in the middle of the earth.
1255
Lovely is the son of Leto,
whom she, the Delian, once bore in the fruitful valleys, golden-haired, skilled at the lyre; and also the one who glories in her well-aimed arrows.
1235
For the mother, leaving the famous birth-place, brought him from the ridges of the sea to the heights of
Parnassus
, with its gushing waters, which celebrate the revels for Dionysus. Here the dark-faced serpent
1240
with brightly colored back, his scales of bronze in the leaf-shaded laurel, huge monster of the earth, guarded Earth’s prophetic shrine. You killed him, o Phoebus, while still a baby,
1245
still leaping in the arms of your dear mother, and you entered the holy shrine, and sit on the golden tripod, on your truthful throne
1250
distributing prophecies from the gods to mortals, up from the sanctuary, neighbor of Castalia’s streams, as you dwell in the middle of the earth.
1255
Iphigenia in Tauris. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1891.
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