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.