Aeschylus Prometheus Bound 399

Theodore Alois Buckley (Translator)

I bewail thee for thy lost fate, Prometheus. A flood of trickling tears from my yielding eyes has bedewed my cheek with its humid gushings: for Jupiter commanding this thine unenviable doom by laws of his own, displays his spear appearing superior o'er the gods of old .

Prometheus Bound. Aeschylus. Theodore Alois Buckley (Translator). London. 1849.

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Prometheus Bound. (OCR draft) (English) (Prometheus Bound.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (7)
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 399-435 focus
Προμηθεὺς δεσμώτης Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 399-435 focus
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 399 focus
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 399 focus
ΠΡΟΜΗθΕΥΣ ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΡΟΜΗθΕΥΣ ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 399 focus
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 399 focus
στένω σε τᾶς οὐλομένας
τύχας, Προμηθεῦ,
δακρυσίστακτον δ᾽ ἀπ᾽ ὄσσων
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ῥαδινῶν λειβομένα ῥέος παρειὰν
νοτίοις ἔτεγξα πηγαῖς·
ἀμέγαρτα γὰρ τάδε Ζεὺς
ἰδίοις νόμοις κρατύνων
ὑπερήφανον θεοῖς τοῖς
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πάρος ἐνδείκνυσιν αἰχμήν.
Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 399 focus
Translations (7)
Prometheus Bound Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 399-435 focus
PROMÉTHÉE ENCHAINÉ (OCR draft) Experimental (PROMÉTHÉE ENCHAINÉ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 399 focus
dans l'étable familière !
Prometheus Chained (OCR draft) Experimental (Prometheus Chained. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 399 focus
For thee I heave the heartfelt ſigh,
My boſom melting at thy woes;
For thee my teardiſtilling eye
In ſtreams of tender ſorrow flows:
For Jove's imperious ruthleſs ſoul,
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That ſcorns the pow'r of mild controul,
Chaſtens with horrid tort'ring pain
Not known to gods, before his iron reign.
Eschilo, Prometeo legato: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Prometeo legato: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 399 focus
Per te gemo, Promèteo,
pel tuo destino acerbo.
Da la palpebra molle
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versando un rivo di stillanti lagrime,
le mie gote bagnai d'umide polle.
Ché il suo poter superbo
con l'arbitrio di sí miseri scempi
ostenta Giove ai Numi che l'imperio
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ebbero ai prischi tempi.
Aeschylus, Prometheus vinctus: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Prometheus vinctus: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 399 focus
Lugeo infœlicem tuam fortunam Prometheu,
Lacrymosum ab oculis
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Delicatis distillans fluentum, genas
Humidis tinxi fontibus. Immensa enim
Haec Iupiter legibus proprijs firmans,
Superbam prius dijs ostendit
English (E. D. A. Morshead, 1908) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Morshead translation. Wikisource transcription; speech corresp and card milestones aligned to Smyth perseus-grc2.) — 399 focus
For the woe and the wreck and the doom, Prometheus, I utter my sighs;
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O'er my cheek flows the fountain of tears from tender, compassionate eyes.
For stern and abhorred is the sway of Zeus on his self-sought throne,
And ruthless the spear of his scorn, to the gods of the days that are done.
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1854; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylos. Deutsch in den Versmaßen der Urschrift. Stuttgart: Hoffmann, 1854. Native Donner line citations, Smyth card correspondence, selected textual readings and metrical facsimiles. Remaining OCR differences and unattributed reading notes are documented in the linked review inventory.) — 399 focus
Ich klag'um de in schmerzliches Jammergeschick, Prometheus,
Und ein Strom träufelnder Zähren
Aus dem zarten Auge nekt mir
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Mit dem feuchten Quell die Wange.
Unerträglich schaltet Zeus hier
Nach Gesezen eigner Willkühr,
Und den alten Göttern zeigt er
Uebergewaltig seinen Heerstab.
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Erste Gegenstrophe.

Commentary

English commentary on Prometheus Bound (OCR draft) (N. Wecklein, translated by F. D. Allen. Ginn & Company, 1893; compared with the 1891 printing. Printed commentary pages 31–144. Provisional alignment and unresolved OCR are visibly flagged.) focus

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1-127: Prologue (πρόλογος).

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1-87: First Scene. Cratos and Bia, dragging the figure representing Prometheus, enter on the left; He- phaestus with smith's tools accompa- nies them.

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14. συγγενή: the scholiast explains, τὸν ἀπὸ μιᾶς ὁρμώμενον τέχνης, that is, "my fellow-craftsman." Rather we must understand the word of
blood-relationship; cp. 39, 289. He- phaestus is the son of Zeus and Hera (Il. i. 577 ff.), or according to Hesiod Th. 927, the fatherless son of Hera; Prometheus is the son of Themis. Now Themis is the daughter of Ura- nus, and Hera his grand-daughter.