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Euripides, Ion (ed. Robert Potter), line 544 (search)
nlawful bed? Xuthus Yes, in the folly of youth. Ion Was that before your marriage with the daughter of Erechtheus? Xuthus Yes, never afterwards. Ion So did you beget me then? Xuthus The time agrees. Ion Then how did I arrive here— Xuthus I cannot account for that. Ion Coming a long way? Xuthus That perplexes me also. Ion Have you come to the Pythian rock before? Xuthus To the torch-processions of Bacchus. Ion You stayed with one of the public hosts? Xuthus He, with the girls of Delphi— Ion Brought you into their company, or what are you saying? Xuthus The maenads of Bacchus. Ion Were you sensible, or under the influence? Xuthus In the pleasures of Bacchus. Ion It was then that I was conceived. Xuthus Fate has discovered you, my son. Ion How did I come to the temple, then? Xuthus Perhaps you were exposed by the girl. Ion I have escaped from slavery. Xuthus Now receive your father. Ion It is reasonable not to distrust the god, at any rate. Xuthus Now you are in
Euripides, Ion (ed. Robert Potter), line 650 (search)
anquet, then lead you to Athens as a pretended visitor, not as my son. For I do not want to grieve my wife, who is childless, while I am fortunate. I will seize the right occasion and induce my wife to let you hold the scepter of the land together with me. Ion I name you, as befits your fortune, since you were the first to meet me as I came out ot the god's shrine. But assemble a full number of your friends, greet them at the sacrifice with pleasure, since you will soon leave the city of Delphi. And you, slaves, I tell you to be silent on these matters, or it will be death for those that tell my wife. Ion I will go. But one part of my fortune is lacking; if I do not find my mother, my life will not be endurable, father. If it is right to pray for it, my mother would be an Athenian, so that from her I might have freedom to speak my mind. For one who bursts as a stranger into a city unmixed in race, even if he is called a citizen, must keep a slavish mouth closed, and does not feel
Euripides, Ion (ed. Robert Potter), line 1132 (search)
He took the calves and left. The youth reverently built the round tent on pillars, without walls, taking good care of the rays of the sun, setting it neither towards the middle beams of heat nor in turn towards the ending ones. He measured a length of 100 feet for a square, having its whole area ten thousand feet, as the wise say, so that he might call all the people of Delphi to the feast. From the treasuries he took sacred tapestries, and shadowed over the tent, a wonder for men to see. First, overhead he spread out wings of cloth, a dedication of the son of Zeus, which Herakles brought from the Amazons as spoils for the god. These pictures were woven in it: Heaven gathering the stars into the circle of the sky. The Sun was driving his horses to the last flare, drawing on the light of Evening. Dark-robed Night was shaking her two-horse chariot by means of the yoked pair, and stars attended her. A Pleiad hastened through the middle sky, with Orion and his sword; above, Arktos tur
Euripides, Ion (ed. Robert Potter), line 1320 (search)
As Ion and his followers are about to tear Creusa from the altar, the Priestess of Apollo enters from the temple. Priestess Hold back, my child; for I have left the oracular tripod and crossed the threshold, I the priestess of Phoebus, who keep the ancient law of the tripod, chosen from all the women of Delphi. Ion Welcome, you who are a dear mother to me, though not my parent. Priestess Then may I be called so; the name is not bitter to me. Ion Have you heard that this woman was trying to kill me with her plots? Priestess I have; but you are going astray in your cruelty. Ion Shouldn't I requite those who would kill me? Priestess Wives are always hostile to former offspring. Ion But we suffer greatly from stepmothers. Priestess Do not do these things; leaving the shrine and going to your country— Ion What must I be advised to do? Priestess Go pure to Athens, with good omens. Ion All those that kill their enemies are pure. Priestess Do not do it! Hear what I have to sa
Euripides, Orestes (ed. E. P. Coleridge), line 931 (search)
, the law becomes relaxed, and the sooner each one of you dies, the better; for it will never be daring at any rate that they will lack.” Yet, for all he seemed to speak well, he did not persuade the assembly; but that villain who spoke in favor of slaying you and your brother gained his point by appealing to the mob. Poor Orestes scarcely persuaded them not to kill him by stoning, promising to die by his own hand, with you, on this day. Pylades, in tears, is now bringing him from the conclave; and his friends bear him company, with wailing and lamentation; so he comes, a bitter sight and piteous vision. Make ready the sword or prepare the noose for your neck, for you must leave the light; your noble birth availed you nothing, nor did Phoebus from his seat on the tripod at Delphi; he was your undoing.The messenger withdraws. [Chorus Leader Ah, hapless maiden! How silent you are, your face covered and bent to the ground, as if about to dash upon a course of lamentation and wailing
Euripides, Orestes (ed. E. P. Coleridge), line 1069 (search)
y; for we, the dead, are robbed of happiness. Pylades How far you are from grasping what I mean! May the fruitful earth, the radiant sky refuse to hold my blood, if ever I turn traitor and desert you when I have freed myself. For I shared in the murder, which I will not deny, and also schemed the whole plot, for which you are now paying the penalty; and so I ought to die together with you and her. For I consider her, whom you betrothed to me, as my wife. Whatever shall I say, when I reach Delphi, the citadel of Phocis, if I was your friend before your misfortunes, but ceased to be your friend, when you were unfortunate? That must not be; no, this concerns me, too. But since we are to die, let us take counsel together that Menelaus may share our misfortune. Orestes Best of friends! if only I could see this before I die. Pylades Listen to me, and delay the stroke of the sword. Orestes I will, if I may take vengeance on my enemy. Pylades Hush now! I have small confidence in women
Euripides, Phoenissae (ed. E. P. Coleridge), line 960 (search)
from this land, regardless of these prophets' reckless warnings; for he will tell all this to our rulers and generals [going to the seven gates and the captains]; now if we can forestall him, you are saved, but if you are too late, we are ruined and you will die. Menoeceus Where can I escape? To what city? To which of our guest-friends? Creon Where you will be furthest removed from this land. Menoeceus It is for you to name a place, for me to carry out your bidding. Creon After passing Delphi— Menoeceus Where must I go, father? Creon To Aetolia. Menoeceus And where must I go from there? Creon To the land of Thesprotia. Menoeceus To Dodona's holy threshold? Creon You understand. Menoeceus What protection will I find there? Creon The god will send you on your way. Menoeceus How shall I find the means? Creon I will supply you with money. Menoeceus A good plan of yours, father. Go now; for I will come to your sister, Jocasta, at whose breast I was suckled when bereft of m
Euripides, Phoenissae (ed. E. P. Coleridge), line 1043 (search)
Chorus At last came Oedipus, the man of sorrow, sent from Delphi to this land of Thebes, a joy to us then, but afterwards a cause of grief; for, when he guessed the riddle triumphantly, he formed with his mother an unhallowed union, woe to him! polluting the city; and striking down his sons by his curses, he handed them over to loathsome strife, through blood, the wretched man. We admire him, we admire him, who has gone to his death in his country's cause, leaving tears to Creon, but bringing a crown of victory to our seven fenced towers. May we be mothers in this way, may we have such fair children, dear PalIas, you who with well-aimed stone spilled the serpent's blood, rousing Cadmus to brood upon the task, from which a demon's curse swooped upon this land and ravaged it.
Euripides, The Suppliants (ed. E. P. Coleridge), line 1196 (search)
Now listen while I tell you where you must slay the victims. You have within your halls a tripod with brazen feet, which Heracles once, after he had overthrown the foundations of Ilium and was starting on another enterprise, enjoined you to set up at the Pythian shrine. Over it cut the throats of three sheep; then engrave the oaths within the tripod's hollow belly; and then deliver it to the god who watches over Delphi to keep, a witness and memorial unto Hellas of the oaths. And bury the sharp-edged knife, with which you shall have laid the victims open and shed their blood, deep in the bowels of the earth, beside the pyres where the seven chieftains burn; for its appearance shall strike them with dismay, if ever against your town they come, and shall cause them to return with sorrow. When you have done all this, dismiss the dead from your land. And to the god resign as sacred land the spot where their bodies were purified by fire, there by the meeting of the triple roads that lea
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 1, chapter 14 (search)
gnty and took it for themselves. Having gotten it, Gyges sent many offerings to Delphi: there are very many silver offerings of his there; and besides the silver, he Delphi: there are very many silver offerings of his there; and besides the silver, he dedicated a hoard of gold, among which six golden bowls are the offerings especially worthy of mention. These weigh thirty talentsThe “Attic” talent had a weight of aeek states had special “treasuries” allotted to them in the temple precincts at Delphi, in which their offerings were deposited. of the Corinthians; although in truthDelphi, in which their offerings were deposited. of the Corinthians; although in truth it is not the treasury of the Corinthian people but of Cypselus son of Eetion. This Gyges then was the first foreigner whom we know who placed offerings at Delphi afDelphi after the king of Phrygia, Midas son of Gordias. For Midas too made an offering: namely, the royal seat on which he sat to give judgment, and a marvellous seat it is. IDelphi after the king of Phrygia, Midas son of Gordias. For Midas too made an offering: namely, the royal seat on which he sat to give judgment, and a marvellous seat it is. It is set in the same place as the bowls of Gyges. This gold and the silver offered by Gyges is called by the Delphians “Gygian” after its
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