Euripides' ION Complete

Translated by R. Potter.

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Creusa: O my unhappy fate! I then am left
Childless to pass my life, childless, alone,
Amid my lonely house! Who was declared?
Whom did the husband of this wretch first meet?
How meet him? Where behold him? Tell me all.

Leader: Dost thou, my honoured mistress, call to mind
The youth that swept the temple? This is he.

Creusa: O, through the liquid air that I could fly,
Far from the land of Greece, ev'n to the stars
Fix'd in the western sky! Ah me, what grief,
What piercing grief is mine I

Tutor: Say, by what name
Did he address his son, if thou hast heard it?
Or does it rest in silence, yet unknown?

Leader: Ion, for that he first advanced to meet him.

Tutor: And of what mother?

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