Aeschylus Prometheus Bound 887

Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead (Translator)

Table of Contents

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

← Previous Next →
O well and sagely was it said—
Yea, wise of heart was he who first
Gave forth in speech the thought he nursed—
In thine own order see thou wed!
Let not the humble heart aspire
1000
To the gross home of wealth and pride;
Nor be it to a hearth allied
That vaunts of many a noble sire.

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.) — 887-906 focus
Προμηθεὺς δεσμώτης Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 887-906b focus
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 887 focus
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 887 focus
ΠΡΟΜΗθΕΥΣ ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΡΟΜΗθΕΥΣ ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 887 focus
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 887 focus
ἦ σοφὸς ἦ σοφὸς ἦν ὃς
πρῶτος ἐν γνώμᾳ τόδ᾽ ἐβάστασε καὶ γλώσ-
σᾳ διεμυθολόγησεν,
915
ὡς τὸ κηδεῦσαι καθ' ἑαυ-
τὸν ἀριστεύει μακρῷ,
καὶ μήτε τῶν πλού-
τῳ διαθρυπτομένων
μήτε τῶν γέννα μεγαλυνομένων
920
Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 887 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.)) — 887-905 focus
Prometheus Bound. (OCR draft) Experimental (Prometheus Bound.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 887 focus
Wise was the man, aye, wise indeed, who first weighed well this maxim, and with his tongue published it abroad, that to match in one’s own degree is best by far
;and that one who lives by labour should woo the hand neither of any that have waxed wanton in opulence, nor of such as pride themselves on nobility of birth.
PROMÉTHÉE ENCHAINÉ (OCR draft) Experimental (PROMÉTHÉE ENCHAINÉ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 887 focus
Oui, c'était un sage, un vrai sage, le pre-
mier 1 dont l'esprit pesa et la langue formula que « s'allier selon son rang » est de beaucoup le premier des biens ; et donc de ne pas convoiter, quand on n'est qu'un artisan, une alliance avec des gens infatués de leur richesse ou enivrés de leur lignage
Prometheus Chained (OCR draft) Experimental (Prometheus Chained. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 887 focus
Eschilo, Prometeo legato: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Prometeo legato: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 887 focus
Saggio saggio fu quei che tale massima
1025
primo fermò nell'anima
e con parole espresse,
che matrimonio eleggere
al suo stato conforme ognun dovesse.
Sposar non cerchi il povero,
1030
né chi d'orgoglio ha l'anima
piena per il molto oro,
né chi vanta d'illustri avi il decoro.
Aeschylus, Prometheus vinctus: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Prometheus vinctus: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 887 focus
Sanè sapiens erat, sapiens sanè,
Qui hoc tulit sententia,
890
Et linguâ protulit,
Affinitatem contrahere suæ conditionis parem
Multum pro desset: at neq; diuitijs
Magnificas, neq;
Genere superbas pauper
895
Amaret nuptias,
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.) — 887 focus
Weise, ja weise fürwahr ist, wer zuerst es
Sinnend erwogen im Geist und laut mit der Zunge verkündigt,
Daß der Ehbund zwischen den Gleichen allein glückbringend sei.
885
Den Eh'n des Reichthums, der im Besize sich bläht,
Und des Hochmuths, der sich des Stammes vermißt,
Nachzugeh'n, frommt niedrer Armuth nimmermehr.

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

944-1039. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-wecklein-allen1893-com-eng1-603

1
2
944-1039. Second Scene of the Exodos. Prometheus and Hermes. Development of the catas- trophe.

998. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-wecklein-allen1893-com-eng1-637

3
4
998. Cp. Schiller Wallenstein's Tod IV. 11 Bedenken Sie doch ja wohl was Sie thun.' 'Bedacht ist schon, was zu bedenken ist.'

999. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-wecklein-allen1893-com-eng1-638

5
6
999 f. τόλμησον, τόλμησον ὀρθῶς φρονεῖν : cp. Horace's sapere aude (Epist. i. 2, 40). For the repetition see on 266.

1001. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-wecklein-allen1893-com-eng1-639

7
8
1001. ὀχλεῖς : absolute, as in Soph. Ο. Τ. 446 παρὼν σύ γ᾽ ἐμποδὼν ὀχλεῖς. – κῦμ᾽ ὅπως : λαλῶν ὡς πρὸς κῦμα ἀναί- σθητον, Schol. Cp. Eur. Med. 28 ὡς δὲ πέτρος ἢ θαλάσσιος κλύδων ἀκούει νουθετουμένη φίλων, Hipp. 304 πρὸς τάδ᾽ αὐθαδεστέρα γίγνου θαλάσσης, Andr. 537 τί με προσπίτνεις ἁλίαν πέ- τραν ἢ κῦμα λιταῖς ὡς ἱκετεύων, Lyco- phr. 1452 εἰς κῦμα κωφὸν βάζω, Philo- dem. Anthol. Pal. v. 107 τοῦτ᾽ ἐβόων αἰεὶ καὶ προύλεγον, ἀλλ᾽ ἴσα πόντῳ Ἰονίῳ μύθων ἔκλυες ἡμετέρων, Ovid. Met. xiii. 804 surdior aequoribus.