Euripides' ION Complete

Translated by R. Potter.

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Ion: Off, touch me not; thy hands
Will mar the garlands of the god.

Xuthus: My touch
Asserts no pledge: my own, and that most dear,
I find.

Ion: Wilt thou not keep thee distant, ere
Thou hast my arrow in thy heart?

Xuthus: Why fly me,
When thou shouldst own what is most fond of thee?

Ion: I am not fond of curing wayward strangers,
And madmen.

Xuthus: Kill me, raise my funeral pyre;
But, if thou kill me, thou wilt kill thy father.

Ion: My father thou! how so? it makes me laugh
To hear thee.

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