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[Μόνον δὴ πρόσθεν ἄλλον ἐν πόνοις
425
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δαμέντ' ἀδαμαντοδέτοις ἀκαμαντοδέτοις
Τιτᾶνα λύμαις εἰσιδόμαν θεόν θεῶν,
Ἄτλανθ', ὃς αἰὲν ὑπέροχον σθένος
κραταιὸν ὡς γᾶν οὐράνιόν τε πόλον νώτοις]
Ὑποστενάζει δὲ δὲ βοᾷ πόντιος κλύδων
430
Epod.
ξυμπίτνων, στένει βυθός βαθύς,
κελαινὸς κελαινὸς δ' Ἄιδος ὑποβρέμει μυχὸς γᾶς,
παγαί θ' ἁγνορύτων ποταμῶν
στένουσιν ἄλγος οἰκτρόν.

Prometheus Bound. Aeschylus. Paul Mazon (Editor). Paris. 1920-1925.

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Current edition Experimental

ΠΡΟΜΗθΕΥΣ ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΣ (OCR draft) (Greek) (ΠΡΟΜΗθΕΥΣ ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (6)
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 436-525 focus
Προμηθεὺς δεσμώτης Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 436-525 focus
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 425 focus
μόνον δὴ πρόσθεν ἄλλον ἐν πόνοις
425
δαμέντ᾽ ἀδαμαντοδέτοις Τιτᾶνα λύμαις
εἰσιδόμαν θεὸν ῎Ατλαν,
ὃς αἰὲν ὑπέροχον σθένος κραταιὸν
γᾶς οὐράνιόν τε πόλον νώτοις ὀχῶν στενάζει.
430
βοᾷ δὲ πόντιος κλύδων
συμπίτνων, στένει βυθὸς,
κελαινὸς ῎Αϊδος δ᾽ ὑποβρέμει μυχὸς γᾶς,
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 425 focus
μόνον δὲ πρόσθεν ἐν πόνοις
425
δαμέντ᾽ ἀδαμαντοδέτοις Τιτᾶνα λύ-
μαις ἐςειδόμαν θεῶν
Ἄτλαντος ὑπέροχον σθένος κραταιόν,
ὃς γᾶν οὐράνιόν τε πόλον
νώτοις ὑποστεγάζει.
430
ἀντ. γ'.
βοᾷ δὲ πόντιος κλύδων
ξυμπίτνων, στένει βυθός,
κελαινὸς Ἄϊδος ὑποβρέμει μυχὸς γᾶς,
παγαί θ᾽ ἁγνορύτων ποταμῶν
435
στένουσιν ἄλγος οἰκτρόν.
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 425 focus
Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 425 focus
[μόνον δὴ πρόσθεν ἄλλον ἐν πόνοις
425
δαμέντ᾽ ἀδαμαντοδέτοις Τιτᾶνα λύμαις
εἰσιδόμαν, θεὸν Ἄτλανθ᾽,
ὃς αἰὲν ὑπέροχον σθένος κραταιὸν
οὐράνιόν τε πόλον νώτοις - -]
ὑποστενάζει [βοᾶι] δὲ πόντιος κλύδων
430
ξυμπίτνων, στένει βυθός,
κελαινὸς δ᾽ Ἄιδος ὑποβρέμει μυχὸς [γᾶς],
παγαί θ᾽ ἁγνορύτων ποταμῶν
στένουσιν ἄλγος οἰκτρόν. ξ
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.)) — 436-525 focus
Prometheus Bound. (OCR draft) Experimental (Prometheus Bound.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 425 focus
One other god only indeed have I heretofore beheld in miseries, the Titan Atlas, subdued by the galling of adamantine
bonds, who evermore in his back is groaning beneath
the excessive mighty mass of the pole of heaven. And the billow of the deep roars as it falls in cadence, the depth moans, and the murky vault of Hades rumbles beneath the earth, and the fountains of the pure streaming rivers wail for his piteous pains.
PROMÉTHÉE ENCHAINÉ (OCR draft) Experimental (PROMÉTHÉE ENCHAINÉ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 425 focus
dont un frisson agite les lances acérées. 1
Prometheus Chained (OCR draft) Experimental (Prometheus Chained. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 425 focus
One other, e'er thy galling chain,
430
Of heaven's high ſons with tortures quell'd,
That rack each joint, each ſinew ſtrain,
Titanian Atlas I beheld;
His giant ſtrength condemn'd to bear
The ſolid, vaſt, and pond'rous ſphere.
435
The ſprings whoſe freſh ſtreams ſwell around,
The hoarſe waves from their depths profound,
And all the gloomy realms below,
Sigh to his sighs, and murmur to his woe.
Eschilo, Prometeo legato: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Prometeo legato: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 425 focus
Un altro Nume solo
stretto ne l'adamante
d'obbrobrïosi vincoli
490
pria d'ora io vidi: Atlante
Titano. A lui su gli òmeri
tutta la terra preme
ed il sidereo polo:
egli, sotto quel peso orrido, geme.
495
Aeschylus, Prometheus vinctus: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Prometheus vinctus: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 425 focus
Tantum antea in laboribus
Domantem in decessis
425
Nocumentis Titanum vidi deorum
Atlantem, qui semper grave robur.
Fortem & cœlestem polum
Humeris sustinet, resonat marinus fluctus
Incidens, tristatur gurges,
430
Nigrum antrum Plutoniæ subsfremit
Terræ, & fontes castorum fluuiorum
Deflent dolorem miserabilem.
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.) — 425 focus
Strange is thy sorrow! one only I know who has suffered thy pain—
Atlas, the Titan, the god, in a ruthless, invincible chain!
He beareth for ever and ever the burden and poise of the sky,
The vault of the rolling heaven, and earth re-echoes his cry.
460
The depths of the sea are troubled; they mourn from their caverns profound,
And the darkest and innermost hell moans deep with a sorrowful sound;
And the rivers of waters, that flow from the fountains that spring without stain,
Are as one in the great lamentation, and moan for thy piteous pain.
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.) — 425 focus
Vordem nur Einen Gott erblickt' ich so
In die Schmach diamantener Bande
425
Gezwängt, den Atlas aus der Titanen Stamm,
Der stöhnend trägt in Ewigkeiten hin
Des Himmelpols unermeßliche Wucht,
Gethürmt auf seine Schultern.
Wild rauscht der aufgestürmten See
430
Wogenschlag, die Tiefe seufzt,
Und dumpf hallt es nach Aides' düstre Kluft,
Und der heiligen Ströme rieselnder Born 1
Beklagt sein schmerzlich Leiden.

Notes on the current edition

Prometheus Bound

1. 425-30 Μόνον... ὑποστενάζει secl. Badham, uerbum ὑποστενάζει Aeschylo restituit Wil.

Commentary

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

425. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-476

μόνον δὲ πρόσθεν ἐν πόνοις:
μόνον δὴ πρόσθεν
M. Vit. Lips. Aug. aliique et Rob.
μόνον
omissum in G. sed in margine ante
δὴ
suppletum.
μόνον δὲ πρόσθεν
Ven. 2. Vind. 1. 3.
σου
post
πρόσθεν
addunt Par. B. Ox. Ald. Tum
ἄλλον ἐν πόνοις
Μ. aliique et Rob.
ἄλλων
Vit. Aug. aliique et Ald.
ἄλλον
in
ἄλλων
a sec. manu mutatum G.
ἄλλον
, superscripto
ων
, Lips.
ἄλλων
, superscripto
ἄλλον
et
γρ. πρόσθεν ἄλλον
, Par. B. Delendum esse
ἄλλων
vel
ἄλλον
adnotatio scholiastarum
ἢ σοῦ ἢ τῶν ἄλλων
docet. Scribendum est
μόνον δὲ πρόσθεν ἐν πόνοις
. Antistrophica enim haec sunt.

426. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-477

ἀδαμαντοδέτοις:
ἀδαμαντοδέτοις
Colb. 1. Ceteri libri
ἀκαμαντοδέτοις
, quod iam Stanleius corrigendum esse vidit. Inepta et ipsa secum pugnans vox est
ἀκαμαντοδέτοις
, nec dubium quin Aeschylus ut supra v. 148.
ἀδαμαντοδέτοις
, sed alio significatu, scripserit. Illic enim proprie eo vocabulo usus est, hic nihil nisi invictam necessitatem dixit. Ita Dionysii tyranni dominatus
ἀδάμαντι δεδεμένος
dicebatur, de quo Kuhnius et Perizonius ad Aeliani V. H. VI. 12. Ita Pindarus Pyth. IV. 125.
τίς δὲ κίνδυνος κρατεροῖς ἀδάμαντος δῆσεν ἅλοις
, commemoratus inter alia ab Rittershusio ad Oppiani Cyneg. III. 240. Eodem pertinet illud in oraculo, apud Herodotum VII. 141.
σοὶ δὲ τόδ᾽ αὐτις ἔπος ἐρέω, ἀδάμαντι πελάσσας
.

426. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-478

Τιτᾶνα λύμαις:
τιτᾶν ἀλύμαις
Vit.

427. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-479

ἐςειδόμαν:
εἰσιδόμαν
, superscripto
ην
, Vit. Lips.
εἰσιδόμην
Vind. 4. Ald. Rob.
εἰσιδόμαν
ceteri.
εἰςειδόμαν
scribendum esse antistropha monstrat.

427. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-480

θεῶν:
θεὸν
M. G. Par. L. Rob.
θεόν
, superscripto
ῶν
, Bess.
θεῶν
ceteri.

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Ἄτλαντος ὑπέροχον σθένος κραταιόν, ὃς γᾶν οὐράνιόν τε πόλον νώτοις ὑποστεγάζει:
ἄτλανθ᾽ ὡς
Μ.
ἄτλανθ' ὃς
ceteri, praeter Vit. Ald. qui divisim
ἄτλαν θ' ὃς
habent, ex inepta recentioris scholiastae sententia, qui
Τιτάνα
Typhonem intelligens accusativum esse volebat
Ἄτλαν
. Scilicet Tzetzes ad Hesiodi O. et D. 381.
Ἄτλας, Ἄτλα
declinari propter
Ἀτλαγενέων
affirmavit: quam sapientiam notavit Lobeckius ad Phryn. p. 669. Nihil ad illam declinationem tuendam confert vocativus
Ἄτλα
, quem a Graecis acceptum in hoc Ovidii Metam. IV. 643. videmus,
tempus, Atla, veniet
: cui par est apud Homerum
Πουλυδάμα
. Sed tamen indulserunt sibi interdum poetae huiusmodi mutationes formarum: unde apud Choeroboscum ad Theodosii canones in Bekkeri Anecd. p. 1183. legimus
καὶ λέγουσιν οἱ ποιηταὶ πολλάκις ὁ Αἴας τοῦ Δία καὶ ὁ Δρύας τοῦ Δρύα καὶ ὁ Θόας τοῦ Θόα, ὡς παρ' Ἡσιόδῳ “ἡ δὲ Θόαν τέκεν υἱόν,” καὶ παρ' Ἀλκαίῳ “Αἴαν τὸν ἄριστον.” οἱ γὰρ ποιηταὶ μέτρῳ δουλεύοντες πολλάκις διὰ τὴν ἀνάγκην τοῦ μέτρου παραβαίνουσι τὸν κάνονα
. Hesiodus quidem scribere poterat, et scripsit fortasse,
ἣ δὲ Θόαντ' ἔτεχ' υἱόν
. Alcaei versum integrum habet Hephaestio p. 61. Gaisf.
Κρονίδα βασιλῆος γένος, Αἴαν, τὸν ἄριστον πέδ Αχιλλέα
. Hic, ubi nulla metri necessitas cogebat, mirabilis est versus quem Dindorfius dedit,
εἰςιδόμαν θεὸν Ἄτλαν ὃς αἰὲν
Post
Ἄτλανθ᾿ ὃς
omnes libri
αἰέν
. Tum
ὑπείροσχον
Lips.
ὑπείοέχον
Par. C. Ceteri libri
ὑπείροχον
, praeter Vit. in quo recte scriptum est
ὑπέροχον
. Libri
σθένος κραταιὸν οὐράνιόν τε πόλον νώτοις ὑποστενάζει
, nisi quod
κρατεὸν
et
πῶλον
G. habet, Robortellus autem
ὑποβαστάζει
. Nihil hoc est nisi interpretatio verae scripturae
ὑποστεγάζει
, quae a me in dissertationis de differentia prosae et poeticae orationis parte prima p. 33. sive in Opusc. vol. I. p. 114. proposita effugit editorum praeter Dindorfium notitiam. In Vit. ad
ὑποστενάζει
superscriptum
βαστάζει
. Hesychius
στέγει, κρύπτει, συνέχει, βαστάζει, ὑπομένει
. Suidas in v.
στέγει, καὶ στεγόντων, ἀνεχόντων, βασταζόντων
. Atqui
στεγάζω
idem est quod
στέγω
. Totum locum, in quo emendando et alii et ego (veluti in Opusc. VII. p. 255.) varie laboravimus, nunc restituisse mihi videor. Et illud quidem Reisigius recte vidit,
σθένος
non potuisse de caelo dici, scribique, ex parte recte, voluit
Ἄτλαντος αἰὲν ὑπείροχον σθένος
. Deinde illud
οὐράνιόν τε πόλον
referri apparet ad aliquam terrae commemorationem, quemadmodum v. 351. Atlas dictus est
κίον᾽ οὐρανοῦ τε καὶ χθονὸς ὤμοις ἐρείδων
. Perturbati sunt strophae postremi versus eo quod
ὃς αἰέν
, non recte illud scriptum, in alienum locum venit. Scripsi
Ἄτλαντος ὑπέροχον σθένος κραταιόν, ὃς γᾶν οὐράνιόν τε πόλον νώτοις ὑποστεγάζει
.

432. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-482

NA: Excidisse versum stropha docet.

433. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-483

ξυμπίτνων:
ξυμπίτνων
sic M.
ξυμπιτνών
, acuto qui in media syllaba fuerat expuncto, Vit.
ξυμπίπτων
Cantabr. 1. Ven. 2. Vind. 3. et pro varia lectione Par. Β.
ξυμπιτνών
ceteri et in margine Vind. 3.

433. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-484

βυθός:
βαθὺς
(non βαθός) M. Rob. In M. ad
στένει
adscriptum ἀπ᾿ εὐθείας τῆς τὸ
στένος
.

434. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-485

κελαινὸς: Libri
κελαινὸς δ᾽ ἄΐδος
. Delendam esse particulam stropha monstravit.

434. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-486

ὑποβρέμει:
ἀποβρέμει μυχὸς γᾶς
Vit.
ὑποβρέμυχος γᾶς
G.

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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2
397-435. First Stasimon. The ionic rhythms accord with the sor- rowful burden of the song, which calls to mind the words of Fr. v. Schlegel, 'Es geht ein allgemeines Weinen, so weit die stillen Sterne scheinen, durch alle Adern der Natur.'

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3
4
425. The foregoing thought, "I bewail thy sufferings in common with all humanity," is followed in the third strophe by the sole exam- ple of similar sufferings. This is then described at length, after the manner of the Homeric similes. The com- parison of past instances is common in tragedy; see Cho. 603 ff., Soph. Ant. 944 ff., El. 837 ff., Phil. 676 ff., Eur. Med. 1282 μίαν δὴ κλύω μίαν τῶν πάρος γυναῖκ᾽ ἐν φίλοις χέρα βαλεῖν τέκνοις κτέ., Hipp. 545 ff., H. F. 1017 ff.

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5
6
425-430. Responsion with the an- tistrophe has been disturbed by inter- polation. See App.

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8
426. ἐν πόνοις δαμέντα: ἐν is not simply the equivalent of the instru- mental dative, as often (for instance Pers. 251 ἐν μιᾷ πληγῇ κατέφθαρται πολὺς ὄλβος), but expresses the dura- tion of the pain, as if it were πόνοις ἐνεζευγμένον. See on 168. – ἀκαμαν- τοδέτοις λύμαις: interpolated from 148 (one manuscript has ἀδαμαντοδέ- τοις). – θεόν: like his brother Pro- metheus.

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10
429 ff. For the thought cp. 348 ff. In both passages Atlas is described as 'upholding sky and earth,' but the language is here even vaguer than in the former place. The expression σθένος γαίας affords a hint of the con- ception intended. While the heavens press down from above, the earth bears up against the pressure of At- las's feet, and the strength with which she resists this pressure is in the poet's mind. - πόλον : cp. the scholi- ast on Ar. Av. 179 πόλον γὰρ οἱ παλαιοὶ οὐχ ὡς οἱ νεώτεροι σημεῖόν τι (a point) καὶ πέρας ἄξονος, ἀλλὰ τὸ περιέχον ἅπαν. Εὐριπίδης Πειρίθῳ (Frg. 597) ‘τὸν ᾿Ατ- λάντειον τηροῦσι πόλον.' - νώτοις ὑπο- στενάζει : = νώτοις βαστάζων στενάζει. But see App.

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12
431 ff. Further description of At- las's situation. 'Fluctus marinos quasi misericordia Atlantis tangi fingit, quia Atlas haud procul a mari in Maure- tania stare ferebatur' (Schütz). — συμπίτνων : sc. ῎Ατλαντι στενάζοντι. The wave which breaks at Atlas's feet groans in sympathy with him, and the lament is passed on to the depth of the sea and finally to the dark re- cesses of the lower world. So too the rivers groan, whose sources are near Atlas. With βοᾷ δὲ πόντιος κλύδων συμπίτνων, cp. Il. xiv. 394 οὔτε θαλάσ- σης κῦμα τόσον βοάᾳ ποτὶ χέρσον, κτἑ.

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14
433. ῎Αΐδος μυχὸς γᾶς: two geni- tives, one of which (yas) is more closely connected with the govern- ing substantive than the other. Cp.4 Soph. O. C. 669 τᾶσδε χώρας ἵκου τὰ κράτιστα γᾶς ἔπαυλα, Eur. Suppl. 53 τάφων' χώματα γαίας, Cycl. 293 ή τε Σουνίου δίας ᾿Αθάνας σῶς ὑπάργυρος πέ- τρα. ῎Αïdos is here used in a broad sense, of the gloomy nether world. For the asyndeton στένει, ὑποβρέμει, and for the whole description, cp.
Sept. 900 διήκει δὲ καὶ πόλιν στόνος, στένουσι πύργοι, στένει πέδον φίλαν- δρον.