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Oh! son of Leto, I invoke you, who send forth your holy voice from your golden seat,
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your central throne, I shall announce it in your ear: O wicked lover, you received no favor from my husband,
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but you settle a child in the house for him; while my son and yours, unknown, is gone, plundered by birds, and has given up the baby-clothes from his mother. Delos hates you, and so do the laurel shoots
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beside the palm with delicate leaves, where Leto gave birth to you, a holy birth, in the plants of Zeus.
Euripides. The Complete Greek Drama, edited by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr. in two volumes. 1. Ion, translated by Robert Potter. New York. Random House. 1938.
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