Aeschylus Prometheus Bound 407

Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead (Translator)

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And over the limitless earth goes up a disconsolate cry:
Ye were all so fair, and have fallen; so great, and your might has gone by!
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So wails with a mighty lament the voice of the mortals, who dwell
In the Eastland, the home of the holy, for thee and the fate that befel;

Prometheus Bound. Aeschylus. Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead (Translator). . .

Current edition Experimental

English (E. D. A. Morshead, 1908) (OCR draft) (English) (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Morshead translation. Wikisource transcription; speech corresp and card milestones aligned to Smyth perseus-grc2.)

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.) — 407 focus
πρόπασα δ᾽ ἤδη στονόεν λέλακε χώρα,
τὰν σὰν
συνομαιμόνων τε τιμὰν, ὁπόσοι τ᾽ ἔποικον ἁγνᾶς
410
Ασίας ἕδος νέμονται, μεγαλοστόνοισι σοῖς πήμασι συγκάμνουσι θνατοί.
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 407 focus
πρόπασα δ᾽ ἤδη στονόεν λέλακε χώρα,
μεγαλοσχήμονά τ' ἀρχαιοπρεπῆ 1 δα-
κρυχέει 2 στένουσα τὴν σὰν
ξυνομαιμόνων τε τιμάν·
410
ὁπόσοι τ᾽ ἔποικον ἁγνᾶς
Ἀσίας ἕδος νέμονται,
μεγαλοστόνοισι σοῖς πή-
μασι συγκάμνουσι θνητοί·
στρ. β'.
ΠΡΟΜΗθΕΥΣ ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΡΟΜΗθΕΥΣ ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 407 focus
στόνοεν λέλακε χώρα,
μεγαλοσχήμονά τ' ἀρχαι-
οπρεπῆ <τ' οἰχομέναν> στένουσι τὰν σὰν
1
ξυνομαιμόνων τε τιμάν,
410
ὁπόσοι τ' ἔποικον ἁγνᾶς
Ἀσίας ἕδος νέμονται
μεγαλοστόνοισι σοῖς πή-
μασι συγκάμνουσι θνατοί·
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 407 focus
πρόπασα δ᾽ ἤδη στονόεν
λέλακε χώρα,
μεγαλοσχήμονά τ᾽ ἀρχαι-
Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 407 focus
πρόπασα δ᾽ ἤδη στονόεν
λέλακε χώρα, μεγαλο-
σχήμονά τ᾽ ἀρχαιοπρεπῆ
στένουσι τὰν σὰν ξυνομαι-
μόνων τε τιμάν· ὁπόσοι
410
τ᾽ ἔποικον ἁγνᾶς Ἀσίας
ἕδος νέμονται, μεγαλοστόνοισι σοῖς
πήμασι συγκάμνουσι θνητοί· =
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
Prometheus Bound. (OCR draft) Experimental (Prometheus Bound.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 407 focus
And now the whole land echoes with wailing—they wail thy stately and time-graced honours, and those of thy brethren; and all they of mortal race that occupy a dwelling neighbouring on hallowed Asia mourn with thy deeply-deplorable sufferings:
PROMÉTHÉE ENCHAINÉ (OCR draft) Experimental (PROMÉTHÉE ENCHAINÉ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 407 focus
gémissante : ses peuples gémissent sur la grandeur et l'antique prestige ravis à la divinité de Prométhée et de ses frères, et tous ceux qui
vivent sur le sol voisin
Prometheus Chained (OCR draft) Experimental (Prometheus Chained. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 407 focus
E'en yet this ample region o'er
Hoarſe ſtrains of ſullen woe reſound,, o
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Thy ſtate, thy brother's ſtate deplore
Agehonour'd glories ruin'd round,
Thy woes, beneath the ſacred ſhade. p
Of Afia's paſtur'd foreſts laid,
The chaſte inhabitant bewails
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Thy groans reechoing thro' his plaintive vales
Eschilo, Prometeo legato: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Prometeo legato: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 407 focus
Tutta la terra un ululo
alza per te di duolo.
La tua magnificenza
piangon quanti han dimora ai lidi d'Espero,
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e il prisco onor di te, di tua semenza.
E quante il sacro suolo
abitano de l'Asia umane genti,
delle torture tue senton, Promèteo,
pietà, dei tuoi lamenti.
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Aeschylus, Prometheus vinctus: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Prometheus vinctus: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 407 focus
Potentiam: omnis iam lugubrè
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Resonuit regio, egregium
Et imperio dignum lugent tuum & consanguineorum
Honorem, quicunq; incolam
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.) — 407 focus
Schon hallt es wehklagend umher in den Landen allen
Um den Ruhm deines Geschlechtes,
Um den deinen, der so groß ward
In der Welten langem Alter.
Ja so viel' im nahen Asien
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In den heil'gen Fluren wohnen,
Ja sie all', um dein entseßlich 1
Jammergeschick wehklagen alle.
Zweite Strophe.

Commentary

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

450. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-503

ἀλίγκιοι: Margo ed. Ald. apud Morellium
γρ. ἀλίγκιον
. Nullo in libro haec scriptura est, sed fuit in Vit. in quo tamen correcta est.

450. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-504

χρόνον:
χρόνον
Lips. Aug. Ald. Rob.
βίον
adscripto
χρόνον
Vit. Par. B.
βίον
Μ. G. et ceteri.

452. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-505

προςείλους:
προσήλους
G. aliique et Ald. Rob.
προσήλους
, superscripto alteri syllabae
ει
, M. Vit. Lips.
προσείλους
codices nonnulli et Turn. V. Etym. Μ. in
πρόςειλος οἰκία
p. 690, 15. et Olearium ad Philostr. p. 69. ac Dawesium Misc. crit. p. 269.

452. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-506

ἦσαν:
ᾔσαν
Μ.
ἦσαν
G. Aug. aliique.
ἦσαν
, supra scripto
ι
, Lips.
εἶσαν
Vit. a correctore.
σαν
codices nonnulli et edd. vett.
ἦσαν
scribendum esse monuerat Piersonus in addendis ad p. 174. notarum in Moerin.

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

436-525. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-wecklein-allen1893-com-eng1-305

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436-525. Second Episode. Prometheus and the Coryphaeus. Prometheus calls to mind the benefits he has conferred on gods and men, and his bitterness increases as he contrasts these with his present treat- ment.

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450. ἔφυρον εἰκῇ: cp. Eur. Suppl. 201 αἰνῶ θ᾽ ὡς ἡμῖν βίοτον ἐκ πεφυρμένου καὶ θηριώδους θεῶν διεσταθμήσατο, and the passage of a tragedy preserved Stob. Ecl. Phys. i. 1 ἔπειτα πάσης Ελ- λάδος καὶ συμμάχων βίον διώκησ᾽ ὄντα πρὶν πεφυρμένον θηρσίν θ᾽ ὅμοιον· πρῶτα μὲν τὸν πάνσοφον ἀριθμὸν ηὕρηκ᾽ ἔξοχον σοφισμάτων (cp. 459), and finally the long description of the primitive con- dition of mankind in Lucret. v. 951 ff. - οὔτε ... οὐ: cp. 479; Cho. 291 οὔτε κρατῆρος μέρος εἶναι μετασχεῖν, οὐ φιλοσπόνδου λιβός, Soph. Ant. 249 οὔτε του γενῇδος ἦν πλῆγμ᾽, οὐ δικέλλης ἐκ- βολή, Ο. C. 972 οὔτε βλάστας πω γε- νεθλίου πατρός, οὐ μητρός εἶχον, Eur. Οr. 46 ἔδοξε δ᾽ ῎Αργει τῷδε μήθ᾽ ἡμᾶς στέγαις, μὴ πυρὶ δέχεσθαι μήτε προσφω- νεῖν τινα, Tro. 934, Frg. 326. – πλιν- θυφεῖς : lateribus contextos. The word is found only here.

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451. προσείλους : compound of εἵλη, sun's warmth. Cp. προσήλιος, ἀντήλιος. - ήσαν: on the Attic form (from olda) see G. 127 VII; H. 491.

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452. ἀήσυροι : agiles, alacri- ter discurrentes (Schütz), that is, swarming. Root αε- (ἄημι), with added σ.