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Προμηθεύς

ὦ Κρόνε καὶ Ἰαπετὲ καὶ σὺ ὦ μῆτερ, οἷα πέπονθα ὁ κακοδαίμων οὐδὲν δεινὸν εἰργασμένος.

Ἑρμῆς

οὐδέν, ὦ Προμηθεῦ, δεινὸν εἰργάσω, ὃς πρῶτα μὲν τὴν νομὴν τῶν κρεῶν ἐγχειρισθεὶς οὕτως ἄδικον ἐποιήσω καὶ ἀπατηλήν, ὡς σαυτῷ μὲν τὰ κάλλιστα ὑπεξελέσθαι, τὸν Δία δὲ παραλογίσασθαι ὀστᾶ καλύψας ἄργετι δημῷ; μέμνημαι γὰρ Ἡσιόδου νὴ Δίʼ οὕτως εἰπόντος· ἔπειτα δὲ τοὺς ἀνθρώπους ἀνέπλασας, πανουργότατα ζῷα, καὶ μάλιστά γε τὰς γυναῖκας· ἐπὶ πᾶσι δὲ τὸ τιμιώτατον κτῆμα τῶν θεῶν τὸ πῦρ κλέψας, καὶ τοῦτο ἔδωκας τοῖς ἀνθρώποις; τοσαῦτα δεινὰ εἰργασμένος φὴς μηδὲν ἀδικήσας δεδέσθαι;

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Προμηθεύς (Greek) (Lucian, Vol. 2. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1915.)

Translations (2)

Prometheus Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 2. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1915.) — 3 focus

PROMETHEUS

O Cronus and Iapetus and you, O mother (Earth)! What a fate I suffer, luckless that I am, when I have done no harm.

HERMES

No harm, Prometheus? In the first place you undertook to serve out our meat and did it so unfairly and trickily that you abstracted all the best of it for yourself and cheated Zeus by wrapping “bones in glistening fat”: for I remember that Hesiod says so.¹ Then you made human beings, thoroughly unprincipled creatures, particularly the women; and to top all, you stole fire, the most valued possession of the gods, and actually gave that to men. When you have done so much harm, do you say that you have been put in irons without having done any wrong?

Prometheus on Caucasus Perseus (The Works of Lucian of Samosata, Vol. 1. Fowler, Henry Watson and Fowler, Francis George, translators. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.) — 3 focus

Prometheus

O Cronus, and Iapetus, and Mother Earth! Behold the sufferings of the innocent!

Hermes

Why, as to innocence,—to begin with, there was that business of the sacrificial meats, your manner of distributing which was most unfair, most disingenuous: you got all the choice parts for yourself, and put Zeus off with bones ‘wrapped up in shining fat’; I remember the passage in Hesiod; those are his very words. Then you made these human beings; creatures of unparalleled wickedness, the women especially. And, to crown all, you stole fire, the most precious possession of the Gods, and gave it to them. And with all this on your conscience, you protest that .ou have done nothing to deserve captivity.

Lucian Prometheus 3

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Προμηθεύς

ὦ Κρόνε καὶ Ἰαπετὲ καὶ σὺ ὦ μῆτερ, οἷα πέπονθα ὁ κακοδαίμων οὐδὲν δεινὸν εἰργασμένος.

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PROMETHEUS

O Cronus and Iapetus and you, O mother (Earth)! What a fate I suffer, luckless that I am, when I have done no harm.

Prometheus

O Cronus, and Iapetus, and Mother Earth! Behold the sufferings of the innocent!

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Προμηθεύς ὦ Κρόνε καὶ Ἰαπετὲ καὶ σὺ ὦ μῆτερ, οἷα πέπονθα ὁ κακοδαίμων οὐδὲν δεινὸν εἰργασμένος.

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PROMETHEUS O Cronus and Iapetus and you, O mother (Earth)! What a fate I suffer, luckless that I am, when I have done no harm.

Prometheus O Cronus, and Iapetus, and Mother Earth! Behold the sufferings of the innocent!

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Προμηθεύς

ὦ Κρόνε καὶ Ἰαπετὲ καὶ σὺ ὦ μῆτερ, οἷα πέπονθα ὁ κακοδαίμων οὐδὲν δεινὸν εἰργασμένος.

PROMETHEUS

O Cronus and Iapetus and you, O mother (Earth)! What a fate I suffer, luckless that I am, when I have done no harm.

Prometheus

O Cronus, and Iapetus, and Mother Earth! Behold the sufferings of the innocent!