Euripides' ION Complete

Translated by R. Potter.

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Ion: Is there aught else besides this happy proof?

Creusa: Two dragons, an old work, their jaws of gold.

Ion: The gift of Pallas, who thus nurtures children?

Creusa: Emblems of Erichthonius of old times.

Ion: Why? for what use? Explain these works of gold.

Creusa: For ornaments to grace the infant's neck.

Ion: See, here they are; the third I wish to know.

Creusa: A branch of olive then I wreathed around thee,
Pluck'd from that tree which from Minerva's rock
First sprung; if it be there, it still retains
Its verdure: for the foliage of that olive,
Fresh in immortal beauty, never fades.

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