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Euripides, Ion (ed. Robert Potter), line 41 (search)
or this he received the honor of marriage with Creusa; he was no native, but born an Achaean from Aeolus, the son of Zeus. Though married a long time they are childless; so they have come to this oracular shrine of Phoebus, in longing for a child. Loxias is driving fortune on to this point, nor is he forgetful, as he seems. For he will give his child to Xuthus on entering this shrine, and he will say the boy was born from Xuthus, so that Creusa may recognize the child when he comes to her house, and Phoebus' union with her may be kept secret, and the boy have his due. He will cause him, founder of the land of Asia, to be called by the name of Ion throughout Greece. But I will go to this cave of laurels, so that I may learn what is fated for the child; I see this son of Loxias coming out to adorn the gates before the shrine with laurel boughs. I am the first of the gods to give him that name, Ion, which he is about to have.Hermes vanishes. Ion and the attendants of the temple enter.
Euripides, Ion (ed. Robert Potter), line 1320 (search)
ere bidden to, or how? Priestess Loxias put it into my mind— Ion To do what? Speak, finish what you have to say. Priestess To keep to this time what I found. Ion What gain does this have for me, or what harm? Priestess The baby-clothes in which you were wrapped are hidden here. Ion You are producing a means to find my mother? Priestess Since the god wishes it; before, he did not. Ion O day of blessed discoveries! Priestess Now take them and find your mother. Ion I will go over all Asia and the boundaries of Europe. Priestess You yourself will know these things. For the sake of the god, I nurtured you, my son, and I will give you these, which he wished me, unbidden, to keep and save; why he wanted this, I do not understand. No mortal knew that I had these things, or where they were hidden. And now farewell; I take leave of you just as a mother does. Begin where you ought to seek your mother; first, if some Delphian girl gave you birth, and exposed you in this shrine; the
Euripides, Ion (ed. Robert Potter), line 1571 (search)
he will be famous throughout Hellas. He will have four sons, from one stock, and they will gave names to the land and the tribes of people who inhabit it. Geleon will be the first; then second . . . Hopletes and Argades, and the Aegicores will have a tribal name from my aegis. Their sons in turn, at the appointed time, will settle in the island cities of the Cyclades, and the lands along the shore, which will give strength to my land; they will colonize the plains of the two mainlands, Asia and Europe, on opposite sides; they will become famous under the name of Ionians, in homage to this boy's name. You and Xuthus will have children together: Dorus, from whom the Dorian state will be celebrated throughout the land of Pelops. The second son, Achaeus, will be king of the shore land near Rhion; and a people called after him will be marked out as having his name. Apollo has done all things well: first, he had you give birth without pain, so that your family would not know about i