Ion
Euripides
Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Translated into English Prose from the Text of Paley. Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906.
- Hast heard how this woman plotted my death?
- I have; thou, too, art wrong because of thy harshness.
- Am I not to pay back murderers in their coin?
- Wives ever hate the children of a former marriage.
- As I hate step-dames for their evil treatment of me.
- Do not so; but leaving, as thou art, the shrine, and setting forth for thy country—
- What then wouldst thou advise me do?
- With clean hands seek Athens, attended by good omens.
- Surely any man hath clean hands who slays his enemies.
- Do not thou do this; but take the counsel that I have for thee.
- Say on; whate’er thou say’st will be prompted by thy good will.
- Dost see this basket that I carry in my arms?
- An ancient ark with chaplets crowned.
- Herein I found thee long ago, a newborn babe.
- What sayest thou? there is novelty in the story thou art introducing.
- Yea, for I was keeping these relics a secret, but now I show them.
- How earnest thou to hide them on that day, now long ago, when thou didst find me?
- The god wished to have thee as his servant in his courts.
- Does he no longer wish it? How am I to know this?
- By declaring to thee thy sire, he dismisses thee from this land.