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.
- The time coincides therewith.
- In that case, how came I hither?
- That puzzles me.
- After that long journey too?
- That, too, perplexes me.
- Didst thou in days gone by come to the Pythian rock?
- Yes, to join in the mystic rites of Bacchus.
- Didst thou lodge with one of the public hosts?
- With one who at Delphi—
- Initiated thee? or what is it thou sayest?
- Among the frantic votaries of Bacchus.
- Wert thou sober, or in thy cups?
- I had indulged in the pleasures of the wine-cup.
- That is just the history of my birth.
- Fate hath discovered thee, my son.
- How came I to the temple?
- Maybe the maid exposed thee.
- I have escaped the shame of slavish birth.
- Acknowledge then thy father, my son.
- It is not right that I should mistrust the god.