Euripides' ION Complete

Translated by R. Potter.

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Ion: Hail, my loved mother, dear, though not my parent.

Priestess: Yet let me have the name, 'tis grateful to me.

Ion: Hast thou yet heard their wily trains to kill me?

Priestess: I have; but void of mercy thou dost wrong.

Ion: Should I not ruin those that sought my life?

Priestess: Stepdames to former sons are always hostile.

Ion: And I to stepdames ill intreated thus.

Priestess: Be not, this shrine now leaving for thy country.

Ion: How, then, by thy monition should I act?

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