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Ion (525-542)

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Why dost thou shun me, now that thou findest in me thy nearest and dearest?
Ion
I am not fond of schooling boors and crazy strangers.
Xuthus
Kill me, burn me, if thou wilt; for, if thou dost, thou wilt be thy father’s murderer.
Ion
Thou my father, indeed i Oh! is not news like this enough to make me laugh?
Xuthus
Not so; my tale, as it proceeds, will prove to thee what I assert.
Ion
Pray, what hast thou to tell me?
Xuthus
That I am thy own father, and thou my very child.
Ion
Who says so?
Xuthus
Loxias, who gave thee nurture, though thou wert my son.
Ion
Thou art thy own witness.
Xuthus
Nay, I have learnt the answer of the god.
Ion
Thou art mistaken in the dark riddle thou hast heard.
Xuthus
It seems then I do not hear aright.
Ion
What said Phoebus?
Xuthus
That the man who met me—
Ion
When and where?
Xuthus
As I came forth from the god’s temple—
Ion
Well! what should happen to him?
Xuthus
Should be my own true son.
Ion
Thy own true son, or a gift from others?
Xuthus
A gift, but mine for all that.
Ion
Am I the first that thou didst meet?
Xuthus
I have met no other, my son.
Ion
Whence came this piece of luck?
Xuthus
To both of us alike it causes surprise.
Ion
Ah I but who was my mother?
Xuthus
I cannot tell.
Ion
Did not Phoebus tell thee that?
Xuthus
I was so pleased with this, I did not ask him that.
Ion
I must have sprung from mother earth.

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