Elegy and Iambus. with an English Translation by. J. M. Edmonds. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 1.

====== Ion of Samos: Poems ======

===== Inscriptions =====

Ion1 on Euripides:—

//Farewell to thee, Euripides, for whom Night's eternal chamber is in the dark-leaved dells of Pieria;2 but albeit thou art underground, know that thy fame shall be everlasting even as the perennial graces of Homer.//

Palatine Anthology 

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//His image did Lysander set up upon this work3 when he destroyed the might of the Children of Cecrops by the victory of his swift ships, and crowned the never-ravaged Lacedaemon, citadel of Greece, his country of fair dances. These lines were made by Ion of sea-girt Samos.4//

Inscription on a stone found at Delphi

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1 as E. seems to have outlived Ion of Chios, this is prob. the work either of Ion of Samos or of the rhapsode Ion of Ephesus, the Ion of Plato's dialogue

2 Euripides died in Macedonia

3 ref. to the large monument of which the base is 20 metres long; or, less likely , in honour of what he did

4 the ref. is to the defeat of the Athenians at Aegospotami in 405 B.C.