Euripides' ION Complete

Translated by R. Potter.

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Xuthus: 'Tis well: all that I want is then complete.
Let me now enter: for the oracle
Is given, I hear, in common to all strangers
Before the shrine; on such a day, that falls
Propitious thus, the answer of the god
Would I receive: meanwhile, these laurel boughs
Bear round the altars; lady, breathe thy prayers
To every god, that from Apollo's shrine
I may bring back the promise of a son. (Xuthus, after giving the
laurel boughs to Creusa, enters the temple.)

Creusa: It shall, it shall be so. Should Phoebus now
At least be willing to redress the fault
Of former times, he would not through the whole
Be friendly to us: yet will I accept
What he vouchsafes us, for he is a god.
(Creusa departs to the shrines in the outer precinct of the temple.)

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