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ἔμαθον τάδε σὰς προσιδοῦσ᾽ ὀλοὰς τύχας, Προμηθεῦ.

τὸ διαμφίδιον δέ μοι μέλος προσέπτα

555

τόδ᾽ ἐκεῖνό θ᾽ ὅ τ᾽ ἀμφὶ λουτρὰ

καὶ λέχος σὸν ὑμεναίουν

ἰότατι γάμων, ὅτε τὰν ὁμοπάτριον ἕδνοις

ἄγαγες Ἡσιόναν πιθὼν δάμαρτα κοινόλεκτρον.

560

545-552.553-560.

Prometheus Bound. Aeschylus. Guilielmus Dindorfius (Editor). Lipsiae. 1882.

Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.

Funding provided by Schmidt Sciences.

Current edition Experimental

Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) (Greek) (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (6)

Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 561-573 focus

Ἰώ

τίς γῆ; τί γένος; τίνα φῶ λεύσσειν

τόνδε χαλινοῖς¹ ἐν πετρίνοισιν

χειμαζόμενον;

τίνος ἀμπλακίας ποινὰς ὀλέκει;

σήμηνον ὅποι
565

γῆς ἡ μογερὰ πεπλάνημαι.

566

Ἰώ

ἆ ἆ,

χρίει τις αὖ με τὰν τάλαιναν οἶστρος:

εἴδωλον Ἄργου γηγενοῦς, ἄλευ᾽ ἆ δᾶ:² φοβοῦμαι,³

τὸν μυριωπὸν εἰσορῶσα βούταν.

ὁ δὲ πορεύεται δόλιον ὄμμ᾽ ἔχων,
570

ὃν οὐδὲ κατθανόντα γαῖα κεύθει.

ἀλλ᾽ ἐμὲ τὰν τάλαιναν

ἐξ ἐνέρων περῶν κυναγεῖ,⁴ πλανᾷ

τε νῆστιν ἀνὰ τὰν παραλίαν ψάμμαν.

575

Προμηθεὺς δεσμώτης Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 561-573 focus

Ἰώ

τίς γῆ; τί γένος; τίνα φῶ λεύσσειν

τόνδε χαλινοῖς ἐν πετρίνοισιν

χειμαζόμενον;

τίνος ἀμπλακίας ποινὰς ὀλέκῃ;

σήμηνον ὅποι γῆς ἡ μογερὰ πεπλάνημαι.
565

566

Ἰώ

ἆ ἆ, ἒ ἔ,

χρίει τις αὖ με τὰν τάλαιναν οἶστρος,

εἴδωλον Ἄργου γηγενοῦς, ἄλευʼ ἆ δᾶ· φοβοῦμαι

τὸν μυριωπὸν εἰσορῶσα βούταν.

ὁ δὲ πορεύεται δόλιον ὄμμʼ ἔχων,
570

ὃν οὐδὲ κατθανόντα γαῖα κεύθει.

ἀλλʼ, ἐμὲ τὰν τάλαιναν

ἐξ ἐνέρων περῶν κυναγετεῖ, πλανᾷ

τε νῆστιν ἀνὰ τὰν παραλίαν ψάμμαν.

Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 552 focus

θνατῶν παρεξίασι βουλαί.
550
ἀντ. β΄.

ἔμαθον τάδε σὰς προςιδοῦσ᾽ ὀλοὰς τύχας, Προμηθεῦ.

τὸ διαμφίδιον δέ μοι μέλος προςέπτα

τόδ', ἐκεῖνό θ᾽, ὅτ᾽ ἀμφὶ λουτρὰ

καὶ λέχος σὸν ὑμεναίουν

ἰότατι γάμων, ὅτε τὰν ὁμοπάτριον ἕδνοις
555

ἄγαγες Ἡσιόναν

πιθὼν δάμαρτα κοινόλεκτρον.

ΠΡΟΜΗθΕΥΣ ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΡΟΜΗθΕΥΣ ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 552 focus

Ἔμαθον τάδε σὰς προσιδοῦσ'

Ant. 2.

ὀλοὰς τύχας, Προμηθεῦ·

τὸ διαμφίδιον δέ μοι μέλος προσέπτα
550

τόδ' ἐκεῖνό θ' ὅ τ' ἀμφὶ λουτρὰ λοετρά

καὶ λέχος σὸν ὑμεναίουν

ἰότατι γάμων, ὅτε τὰν

ὁμοπάτριον ἕδνοις

ἄγαγες Ἡσιόναν πεί-
θων πιθὼν seu ποθῶν δάμαρτα κοινόλεκτρον.
555

Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 552 focus

ἔμαθον τάδε σὰς

προσιδοῦσ᾽ ὀλοὰς

τύχας, Προμηθεῦ. τὸ διαμφίδιον

δέ μοι μέλος προσέπτα

τόδ᾽ ἐκεῖνό θ᾽ ὅτ' ἀμφὶ λουτρὰ

575

καὶ λέχος σὸν ὑμεναίουν

ἰότατι γάμων,

ὅτε τὰν ὁμοπάτριον

ἕδνοις ἄγαγες Ἡσιόναν

πείθων δάμαρτα κοινόλεκτρον.

580

¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷

ἄχαρις χάρις χάρισ ἄχαρισ⁸ ποῦ τισ ⁹ ¹⁰ ¹¹ οὔποτε οὔπως οὔπω προσιδοῦσ᾽ προσιδοῦσ᾽ προϊδοῦσ᾽ ἐκεῖνό θ᾽ ὅτ' ἐκεῖν᾽ ὅτε τότ' (ἐκεῖνό τε ὅτ' recc.)¹²

PROMETHEVS VINCTVS. 33

ΙΩ.

Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 552 focus

ἔμαθον τάδε σάς προσιδοῦσ᾽ ὀλο-

ὰς τύχας, Προμηθεύ.

τὸ διαμφίδιον δέ μοι μέλος προσέπτα,

τόδ᾽ ἐκεῖνό θ᾽, ὅτ᾽ ἀμφὶ λουτρὰ καὶ λέχος σὸν

555

ὑμεναίουν ἰότατι γάμων, ὅτε

τὰν ὁμοπάτριον ἕδνοις

ἄγαγες Ησιόναν πι-

θὼν δάμαρτα κοινόλεκτρον.

Translations (8)

Prometheus Bound Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 561-570 focus

Enter Io¹

Io

What land is this? What people? By what name am I to call the one I see exposed to the tempest in bonds of rock? What offence have you committed that as punishment you are doomed to destruction?

Tell me to what region of the earth I have wandered in my wretchedness?
565

566

Oh, oh! Aah! Aah! A gad-fly, phantom of earth-born Argus is stinging me again! Keep him away, O Earth! I am fearful when I behold that myriad-eyed herdsman. He travels onward with his crafty gaze upon me;

not even in death does the earth conceal him, but passing from the shades he hounds me, the forlorn one, and drives me famished along the sands of the seashore.
570

Prometheus Bound. (OCR draft) Experimental (Prometheus Bound.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 552 focus

This I learned by witnessing thy destructive fate, Prometheus. And far different is this strain that now flits towards me from that hymenaeal chant which I raised around the baths and thy couch with the consent of nuptials, when, after having won Hesione with thy love-tokens, thou didst conduct her our sister to be thy bride, the sharer of thy bed.

Enter Io

IO

PROMÉTHÉE ENCHAINÉ (OCR draft) Experimental (PROMÉTHÉE ENCHAINÉ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 552 focus

que t'apportent les éphémères ? Ne
vois-tu pas la débile impuissance, pareille à celle des songes ¹, qui entrave les pas de l'aveugle race humaine ? Jamais volonté mortelle ne violera l'ordre établi par Zeus.
Cela, je l'apprends à contempler ta misère, Prométhée, et,

Prometheus Chained (OCR draft) Experimental (Prometheus Chained. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 552 focus

Eschilo, Prometeo legato: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Prometeo legato: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 552 focus

E questo, Prometèo,

appresi nel veder tua sorte misera.

Oh!, ben diversi suonano

questo mio canto d'ora, e l'imeneo

650

che dal mio labbro al talamo

tuo si levò d'attorno

e ai tuoi lavacri, il giorno

che sposa alla tua casa

la mia sorella Esíone
655

venne: ché i doni tuoi l'ebber suasa.

3 TERZO EPISODIO

Una fanciulla di viso bellissimo, ma deturpato da due corna di giovenca, si lancia tra le rupi con folli balzi, e si ferma davanti a Prometeo.

IO

Aeschylus, Prometheus vinctus: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Prometheus vinctus: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 552 focus

Didici hæc, tuas

Respiciens perniciosas fortunas, Prometheu.

Anceps mihi cantio accidit,

Hoc & illud pro lauacris, & lecto,
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Tuum Hymeneum desiderio nuptiarum, premis

Duxisti Hesionam tunc sororem,

Persuadens uxorem coniugem.

Io.

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.) — 552 focus

Alas, Prometheus! on thy woe condign

I looked, and learned this lore;

And a new strain floats to these lips of mine—
600

Not the glad song of yore,

When by the lustral wave I sang to see

My sister made thy bride,

Decked with thy gifts, thy loved Hesione,

And clasped unto thy side.
605
[ Enter Io, horned like a cow.

Io

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.) — 552 focus

Ich erkannt' es an dir, o Prometheus,

An deinem schweren Leide.
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O wie anders umschwebt mich dieses Lied, wie anders,

Als jener Gesang, der am Brautbad

Dir von uns erklang, am Brautbett,

Zu der festlichen Lust, da du meine Hesione,

Durch hochzeitliche Gaben verlockt,
555

Heimführtest in der Liebe Lager!

(Jo, die Tochter des Inachos, von Here in eine Kuh verwandelt, kommt heftig auf die Bühne gestürmt; die Hörner an ihrer Maske deuten ihre Ver- wandlung an.)

Jo.

Commentary

Critical apparatus to Prometheus Bound (OCR draft) (Latin and Greek critical apparatus to Gottfried Hermann's 1852 edition of Prometheus Bound.) focus

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ἐφαμερίων:

ἐφαμέρων

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ὀλιγοδρανίαν:

ὀλιγοδρανίαν

Μ. G. aliique.

ὀλιγοδρανειαν

Vit.

ὀλιγοδρανίᾳ

Lips. Aug. edd. vett.

ὀλιγοδρανοῦσαν

non in G. est, sed commemoratum a Turnebo.

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ἄκικυν:

ἄκικυν

ultimis tribus litteris a sec. manu M.

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ᾧ: Quoniam in antistrophico versu libri habent

καὶ λέχος σὸν ὑμεναίουν

, erat quum putarem

ἰσόνειρον

ex interpretatione receptum esse pro

ὑπνόνειρον

. Sic enim talia explicant grammatici, similiterque in Choeph. v. 316.

ἰσόμοιρον

male scriptum est pro

ἀντίμοιρον

. Atque iussit ita scribi Reisigius in enarratione Oed. Col. ad v. 186. Nihil valet ad defendendam productam in

ἰσόνειρον

primam syllabam comparatum a Dindorfio

ἰσόθεος

, nec Pindari

ἰσοδαίμων

accipio. Sed ut antistrophicum potius versum emendemus numerorum ratio admonet, quae versum Anacreonteum eo magis commendat, quod, si hi trochaei essent, parum scite

καὶ

in antistrophico versu graviorem ictum haberet.

ᾧ

in litura, a sec. manu scripto, ut sub litura

apparere videatur, M. G.

ᾧ

, superscripto

, Lips.

αἷς

Colb. 1. Bess. Ald.

ὃ

Rob. Turn. Omittit hoc pronomen Vit.

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ἀλαὸν * δέδεται*: Deesse verbum post

ἀλαὸν

Brunckius vidit. Intercidisse autem tale quale

δέδεται

est, quod posui, non solum metra, sed oratio quoque arguit, quae si

ἐστὶ

intelligendum esset, quod supplent scholiastae, prosae quam poesi esset similior. Vel hanc ob caussam non potest admitti quod Dindorfius Aeschylum scripsisse putat,

ἀλαὸν γένος ἐμπεποδισμένον; οὔποτε θνατῶν τὴν Διὸς ἁρμονίαν ἀνδρῶν παρεξίασι βουλαί

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οὔπως: Libri

οὔποτε

, quod non dubitavi in

οὔπω

mutare, metri antistrophici indicio.

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θνατῶν:

θνητῶν

G. Quum in antistrophico versu iambus sit, vereor ne

βροτῶν

scribendum sit.

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ἔμαθον τάδε σὰς:

ἔμαθον δὲ τὰς σὰς

Vit.

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διαμφίδιον: Hesychius

διαμφίδιον μέλος, ἀλλοῖον, διαπαντὸς κεχωρισμένον· ἀμφίς γὰρ χωρίς· Αἰσχύλος Προμηθεῖ δεσμώτῃ

. Ne quis in articulo haereat, aut

τὸ διαμφίδιον

putet pro

διαμφιδίως

dici, qua Theocrito familiari ratione loquendi non utuntur tragici, moneo, poetam, quum dicere in animo haberet

τὸ διαμφίδιον δέ μοι μέλος προςέπτα, ὅτε ὑμεναίουν

, in medio explicandae sententiae caussa inserere

τόδ', ἐκεῖνο δέ

. Vsurpatum

διαμφίς

Dionysio periegetae v. 5. 903. 1136.

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μέλος:

μέλεις

Lips.

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τόδ', ἐκεῖνό θ᾽, ὅτ᾽ ἀμφὶ λουτρὰ καὶ λέχος σὸν:

τόδ' λουτρὰ καὶ

omittit Lips. in quo praecedens versus ultimus paginae est.

ἐκεῖν᾽ ὅτε τότ'

Μ.

ἐκεῖνό τε, ὅτ'

ἐκεῖνό τε ὅ,τ᾽

Colb. 2.

ἐκεῖν᾽ ὅτ'

Vit. aliique.

ἐκεῖν᾽ ὅτε τ'

Ven. 2. aliique.

ἐκείνωτε ὅτ'

Ald.

ἐκεῖνογε ὅτ'

Rob.

ἐκεῖνό θ' ὅ,το

Victorius.

ἐκεῖνό θ' ὅτ'

Brunckius.

λουτρὰ καὶ λέχος σὸν

M. Vit. aliique et Rob.

λοετρὰ καὶ λέχος σὸν

(

σοι

G.) G. Par. B. Bess. Ald.

λουτρά τε καὶ λέχος σὸν

Cantabr. 1.

λοετρά τε καὶ λέχος σὺν

Turn. Mutavi haec ita ut cum strophico versu congruerent. Non habeo fidem Photio dicenti

ὑμεναιοῦν, τὸ ᾄδειν τὸν ὑμέναιον καὶ συνάπτειν τὸν γάμον

, sed prius illud

ὑμεναιεῖν

dici analogia postulat. Quod apud Aristophanem est in Pace v. 1076. 1112.

πρίν κεν λύκος οἶν ὑμεναιοῖ

, recte explicat scholiastes

εἰς γάμους ἄγοιτο

. Eodem modo Theocritus XXII. 179.

ὑμεναιώσουσι δὲ κούρας τάςδε

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ἰότατι:

ἰότατι

M. Vit. aliique.

ἰότητι

G. Lips. Aug. edd. vett.

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γάμων:

γάμον

Lips.

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ὅτε τὰν:

ὅτε τὴν ὁμοπάτριον

post

ἕδνοις ἤγαγες Ἡσιόναν

, duorum versiculorum sedibus permutatis, Ald. Rob. Turn.

τὰν

, superscripto

, Lips. Id negligentius adspectum fecit ut in Aug.

τ'

scriberetur.

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ἄγαγες:

ἤγαγες

G. Lips. Aug. Ald. Turn.

ἄγαγες

M. Vit. aliique et Rob.

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Ἡσιόναν:

Ἡσιόναν

etiam M. sed ut recentior manus

fecerit.

Ἡσιόναν

, superscripto

, Lips.

Ἡσιόνην

in litura G. De Hesiona nihil constat, nisi quod Tzetzes ad Lycophr. 1283. narrat, ex illa vel Axiothea Prometheo natum esse Deucalionem. Scholiastarum Aeschyli alii eam Oceani et Tethyis filiam fuisse commenti sunt,

ὁμοπάτριον

eam chori dici existimantes, alii sororem Promethei illo nomine vocari intellexerunt. Apud scholiastam Euripidis ad Phoen. 1129. ed. Matth. Hesiona ex Atlante mater est Electrae. Sapienter vero, quisquis ille fuit, qui Hesionam Promethei uxorem fecit. Compositum enim videtur hoc nomen ex iis verbis ex quibus sunt

ἵημι

ὄνησις

, ut significetur quae utilitates mittit.

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πιθὼν:

πείθων

a pr. manu M. Recentior manus

πιθὼν

fecit.

ποθῶν

, superscriptο

, Vit.

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λεύσσειν:

λεύσειν

G. Vit. et a pr. manu M.

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χαλινοῖς:

χαλινοῖσιν

M. Vit. Lips. aliique et Ald. Rob.

χαλινοῖσι

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ἐν πετρίνοισιν:

ἐν πετρίνοισι

, superscripto a sec. manu

τοῖς ὀρείοις

, Μ.

ἐν πετρίνοισι

, addito minutis litteris

τοῖς ὀρείοισι

, superscripto

τοῖς ὀρεινοῖς

, ad

πετρίνοισι

autem

ὀρείοις

, Vit.

ἐν πετρίνοισι τοῖς ὀρείοις

Lips. Aug. aliique et Ald. Rob.

ἐν πετρίνοισιν ὀρείοις

alii.

πετρίνοισι τοῖς ὀρείοις

, omisso

ἐν

, et facta correctione

πέτρῃσι

, G.

ἐν πετρίνοισι τοῖσιν ὀρείοις

Turn. Codicis M. scripturam dedit Victorius.

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ἀμπλακίας:

ἀμπλακίας

M. G. Vit. Lips. Aug. aliique.

ἀμπλακίης

quattuor Vind. et edd. vett.

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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526-560. Second Stasimon. The subject - praise of peace with Heaven and a tranquil life - is sug- gested by the words of the cory- phaeus 519 τί γὰρ πέπρωται Ζηνὶ πλὴν ἀεὶ κρατεῖν ; The dactylo-epitritic rhythm corresponds with this senti- ment, and 'affords, in the midst of the heat of tragic pathos, a moment of refreshing coolness and cheerful calm' (Westphal). ποτε ἀντίπαλον κράτος ποιοῖτο τῇ ἐμῇ γνώμῃ, ἀντὶ τοῦ μηδέποτε ἐναντίος μοι γένοιτο, Schol. – θεῖτο κράτος ἀντίπα- λον: see on 163.

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546 f. ἐφαμερίων : see on 83. With this description of human helpless- ness, cp. Ar. Αυ. 685 ἄγε δὴ φύσιν ἄνδρες ἀμαυρόβιοι, φύλλων γενεᾷ προσό- μοιοι, ὀλιγοδρανέες, πλάσματα πηλοῦ, σκιοειδέα φῦλ᾽ ἀμενηνά, ἀπτῆνες ἐφη- μέριοι, ταλαοὶ βροτοὶ, ἀνέρες εἰκελόνειροι. · ὀλιγοδρανίαν: with epic quantity before δρ. Homer uses the parti- ciple ὀλιγοδρανέων as equivalent to ὀλιγηπελέων. Cp. Orph. Argon. 432 ἀνθρώπων ὀλιγοδρανέων πολυεθνέα φύτ- λην ἤειδον. – ἄκικυς : ἀσθενής, ἀδύνατος, Hesych. Cp. Aesch. Frg. 230 σοὶ δ᾽ οὐκ ἔνεστι κῖκυς οὐδ᾽ αἱμόρρυτοι φλέβες, Od. xi. 393 ἀλλ᾽ οὐ γάρ οἱ ἔτ᾽ ἦν ἐς ἔμπεδος οὐδέ τι κίκυς.

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Ἰώ

τίς γῆ; τί γένος; τίνα φῶ λεύσσειν

τόνδε χαλινοῖς ἐν πετρίνοισιν

χειμαζόμενον;

τίνος ἀμπλακίας ποινὰς ὀλέκῃ;

σήμηνον ὅποι γῆς ἡ μογερὰ πεπλάνημαι.
565

ΙΩ.

Io

What land is this? What people? By what name am I to call the one I see exposed to the tempest in bonds of rock? What offence have you committed that as punishment you are doomed to destruction?

Tell me to what region of the earth I have wandered in my wretchedness?
565

IO

e ai tuoi lavacri, il giorno

che sposa alla tua casa

la mia sorella Esíone
655

venne: ché i doni tuoi l'ebber suasa.

IO

Anceps mihi cantio accidit,

Hoc & illud pro lauacris, & lecto,
550

Tuum Hymeneum desiderio nuptiarum, premis

Duxisti Hesionam tunc sororem,

Persuadens uxorem coniugem.

Io.

Io

Jo.

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Ἰώ τίς γῆ; τί γένος; τίνα φῶ λεύσσειν τόνδε χαλινοῖς 1 ἐν πετρίνοισιν χειμαζόμενον; τίνος ἀμπλακίας ποινὰς ὀλέκει; σήμηνον ὅποι 565 γῆς ἡ μογερὰ πεπλάνημαι. 566

Ἰώ τίς γῆ; τί γένος; τίνα φῶ λεύσσειν τόνδε χαλινοῖς ἐν πετρίνοισιν χειμαζόμενον; τίνος ἀμπλακίας ποινὰς ὀλέκῃ; σήμηνον ὅποι γῆς ἡ μογερὰ πεπλάνημαι. 565

ΙΩ.

Io What land is this? What people? By what name am I to call the one I see exposed to the tempest in bonds of rock? What offence have you committed that as punishment you are doomed to destruction? Tell me to what region of the earth I have wandered in my wretchedness? 565

IO

e ai tuoi lavacri, il giorno che sposa alla tua casa la mia sorella Esíone 655 venne: ché i doni tuoi l'ebber suasa.

IO

Anceps mihi cantio accidit, Hoc & illud pro lauacris, & lecto, 550 Tuum Hymeneum desiderio nuptiarum, premis Duxisti Hesionam tunc sororem, Persuadens uxorem coniugem.

Io.

Io

Jo.

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Ἰώ

τίς γῆ; τί γένος; τίνα φῶ λεύσσειν

τόνδε χαλινοῖς ἐν πετρίνοισιν

χειμαζόμενον;

τίνος ἀμπλακίας ποινὰς ὀλέκῃ;

σήμηνον ὅποι γῆς ἡ μογερὰ πεπλάνημαι.
565

Io

What land is this? What people? By what name am I to call the one I see exposed to the tempest in bonds of rock? What offence have you committed that as punishment you are doomed to destruction?

Tell me to what region of the earth I have wandered in my wretchedness?
565

e ai tuoi lavacri, il giorno

che sposa alla tua casa

la mia sorella Esíone
655

venne: ché i doni tuoi l'ebber suasa.

Anceps mihi cantio accidit,

Hoc & illud pro lauacris, & lecto,
550

Tuum Hymeneum desiderio nuptiarum, premis

Duxisti Hesionam tunc sororem,

Persuadens uxorem coniugem.