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Prometheus Bound. Aeschylus. Herbert Weir Smyth (Translator). New York. 1922.

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

Editions (7)
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 561-573 focus
Προμηθεὺς δεσμώτης Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 552 focus
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 552 focus
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
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. (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.
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.
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,
550
Tuum Hymeneum desiderio nuptiarum, premis
Duxisti Hesionam tunc sororem,
Persuadens uxorem coniugem.
Prometheus Bound (OCR draft) Experimental (Prometheus Bound. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 552 focus
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.
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.
550
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.)

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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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'
G.
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
η
, 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
η
ex
α
fecerit.
Ἡσιόναν
, superscripto
η
, 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
et
ὄνησις
, ut significetur quae utilitates mittit.

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πιθὼν:
πείθων
a pr. manu M. Recentior manus
πιθὼν
fecit.
ποθῶν
, superscriptο
ι
, 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
G.

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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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4
555. διαμφίδιον μέλος: ἀλλοῖον, δια- παντὸς κεχωρισμένον· ἀμφὶς γὰρ χωρίς · Αἰσχύλος Προμηθεῖ δεσμώτῃ, Hesych.

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6
556. τόδ᾽ ἐκεῖνό τε: for this use of τέ, cp. Eur. Cycl. 37 μῶν κρότος σικι- νίδων ὅμοιος ὑμῖν νῦν τε χώτε βακχίῳ κώμοις συνασπίζοντες ᾿Αλθαίας δόμους προσῇτε; - λουτρά: ἔθος ἦν τοῖς παλαιοῖς ὅτε ἔγημέ τις ἐπὶ τοῖς ἐγχω- ρίοις ποταμοῖς ἀπολούεσθαι, Schol. on Eur. Phoen. 349.

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8
558. ὑμεναιοῦν: τὸ ἄδειν τὸν ὑμέ- ναιον καὶ συνάπτειν τὸν γάμον, Photius.

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10
559. ἰότατι: an Homeric word. In Od. xi. 384 ἐν νόστῳ δ᾽ ἀπόλοντο κακῆς ἰότητι γυναικός, it means by the design of, but here it means on the occasion of. Cp. ἕκατι. τὰν ὁμοπάτριον : Hesione is daughter of Oceanus, ac- cording to Acusilaus (quoted Schol. Od. x. 2, ὡς δὲ ᾿Ακουσίλαος, Ησιόνης τῆς ᾿Ὠκεανοῦ καὶ τοῦ Προμηθέως, sc. Δευκαλίων ἦν υἱός). The expression ὁμοπάτριον implies that she is not a daughter of Tethys, the mother of the Oceanids.

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560. The scholiast interprets, ἕδνοις πείθων τὴν ἐσομένην σοι δάμαρτα κοινό- λεκτρον. The action of πείθων is syn- chronous with ἄyayes, but continued, so that πείθων ἕδνοις nearly = πειθοῖ ἕδνων. See Krüger I. § 53, 1, 7. Ср. Suppl. 918 τἄμ᾽ ὀλωλόθ᾽ εὑρίσκων ἄγω.