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1130 Euripides [279-294]<br />

ION<br />

And thou of all thy sisters saved alone?<br />

CREUSA<br />

I was an infant in my mother's arms.<br />

ION<br />

And did the yawning earth swallow thy father?<br />

CREUSA<br />

By Neptune's trident smote; and so he perish'd.<br />

ION<br />

And Macrai call you not the fatal place?<br />

CREUSA<br />

Why dost thou ask? What thoughts hast thou recall'd?<br />

ION<br />

Does Phoebus, do his lightnings honour it?<br />

CREUSA<br />

Honour I Why this? Would I had never seen it!<br />

ION<br />

Why? Dost thou hate the place dear to the god?<br />

CREUSA<br />

No: but for some base deed done in the cave.<br />

ION<br />

But what Athenian, lady, wedded thee?<br />

CREUSA<br />

Of Athens none, but one of foreign birth.<br />

ION<br />

What is his name? Noble he needs must be.<br />

CREUSA<br />

Xuthus, by Aeolus derived from Jove.<br />

ION<br />

How weds a stranger an Athenian born?<br />

CREUSA<br />

Euboea is a state neighbouring on Athens.

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