944-1039.
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944-1039. Second Scene of the Exodos. Prometheus and Hermes. Development of the catas- trophe.
1007.
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1007.
πολλὰ
καὶ
μάτην: cp.
Eum. 144
ἢ
πολλὰ
δὴ
παθοῦσα
καὶ
μάτην
ἐγώ.
1010.
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1010.
βιάζει : =
βίᾳ
φέρεις. Cp. Eur. Hipp. 1223
αἳ
δ᾽
ἐνδακοῦσαι
στόμια
πυρι-
γενῆ
γναθμοῖς
βίᾳ
φέρουσιν,
οὔτι
ναυ-
κλήρου
χερὸς
μεταστρέφουσαι, Med. 242
μὴ
βίᾳ
φέρων
ζυγόν, Soph. El. 725.
1011.
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1011.
σφοδρύνει,
ἀσθενεῖ : outward turbulence, but inner powerlessness.
1013.
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1013.
αὐτὴ
καθ'
αὑτήν: that is,
χωρὶς
τοῦ
καλῶς
φρονεῖν. —
οὐδενὸς
μεῖ-
ζον
σθένει : ‘nulla re est validior, i.e. quavis re est infirmior' (Halm). Ex- planation and confirmation of the foregoing
ἀσθενεῖ. Cp. Theogn. 411
οὐδενὸς
ἀνθρώπων
κακίων
δοκεῖ
εἶναι
ἑταῖρος,
ᾧ
γνώμη
θ᾽
ἕπεται,
Κύρνε,
καὶ
ᾧ
δύναμις, Thuc. vii. 71
οὐδεμιᾶς
δὴ
τῶν
ξυμπασῶν
ἐλάσσων
ἔκπληξις, 85
πλεῖ-
στος
γὰρ
δὴ
φόνος
οὗτος
καὶ
οὐδενὸς
ἐλάσσων
τῶν
ἐν
τῷ
Σικελικῷ
πολέμῳ
τούτῳ, Dem. 1. 27
ἡ
τῶν
πραγμάτων
αἰσχύνη,
οὐδεμιᾶς
ἐλάττων
ζημίας
τοῖς
γε
σώφροσι, Plat. Prot. 335 a
εἰ
τοῦτο
ἐποίουν,
οὐδενὸς
ἂν
βελτίων
ἐφαινόμην, Eur. Andr. 726
τἄλλ᾽
ὄντες
ἴστε
μηδε-
νὸς
βελτίονες. - For the thought cp. Soph. O. T. 549
εἴ
τοι
νομίζεις
κτῆμα
τὴν
αὐθαδίαν
εἶναί
τι
τοῦ
νοῦ
χωρίς,
οὐκ
ὀρθῶς
φρονεῖς.
1014.
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1014.
σκέψαι
δέ: the same formula introduces an argument Soph. O. T. 584
σκέψαι
δὲ
τοῦτο
πρῶτον, Eur. Suppl. 476
σκέψαι
δὲ
καὶ
μὴ
τοῖς
ἐμοῖς
θυμούμενος
λόγοισιν ...
σφριγῶντ᾽
ἀμεί-
ψῃ
μύθον. Cp. Soph. Trach. 1077
σκέ-
ψαι
θ'
ὁποίας
ταῦτα
συμφορᾶς
ὕπο
πέ
πονθα.
1015.
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1015.
χειμών : cp. 643. For the po- sition of
κακῶν see on 458. –
τρικυμία : cp. the Latin decima unda, de- cumanus fluctus, Sept. 760
κα-
κῶν
δ᾽
ὥσπερ
θάλασσα
κῦμ᾽
ἄγει,
τὸ
μὲν
πίτνον,
ἄλλο
δ᾽
ἀείρει
τρίχαλον, Eur.
Hipp. 1213
σὺν
κλύδωνι
καὶ
τρικυμίᾳ, Plat. Rep. 472
α
τὼ
δύω
κύματε
ἐκ-
φυγόντι
τὸ
μέγιστον
καὶ
χαλεπώτατον
τῆς
τρικυμίας
ἐπάγεις.
1016.
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1016.
ἔπεισ': elision of in the
verb-ending
-σι is rare. -
πρῶτα
μέν : answered by simple
δέ 1020. Ср. 447. -
ὀκρίδα:
cp.
ὀκριοέσσῃ,
281.
1019.
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1019.
πετραία
ἀγκάλη: cp. Cho. 586
πόντιαι
ἀγκάλαι, Ar. Ran. 704
τὴν
πόλιν
ἔχοντες
κυμάτων
ἐν
ἀγκάλαις, in imitation of Archilochus's verse
ψυ-
χὰς
ἔχοντες
κυμάτων
ἐν
ἀγκάλαις.
πετραία...
βαστάσει: states what is properly only a circumstance (=
ev
πετραίᾳ
ἀγκάλῃ
βασταζόμενον). Pro- metheus is to sink, fetters and all, into the bowels of the earth, encir- cled by the cliff to which he is bound. By this device the poet avoids, at the opening of the
Προμηθεὺς
λυόμενος, the uninteresting repetition of the bind- ing of Prometheus.
1020.
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1020.
μακρὸν
μήκος : cp. Eur. Or. 72
μακρὸν
δὴ
μήκος
χρόνου.
μήκος = spatium, stretch.
1021.
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1021.
τοί: confirmative, mark well.
1022.
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1023.
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1023.
διαρταμήσει ...
μέγα
ῥάκος: cp. below, Frg. III. of
Προμηθεὺς
λυό-
μενος 10 iam tertio me quoque funesto die tristi advolatu aduncis lacerans unguibus Iovis satelles pastu dilaniat fero. -
μέγα
ῥάκος: gives the result of
διαρταμήσει, tear into great shreds, So
κελαινόβρωτον below. Observe
μέγα before §. § is the only liquid which maintains in
post-Homeric poetry both the internal doubling (-pp-) and the force of two conso- nants at the beginning of a word (the
after-effect of a dropped initial consonant;
ῥάκος =
Fράκος, Aeol.
βρά-
κος). The preceding vowel may also (in the thesis) be short; see 713, 992.
1024.
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1024.
πανήμερος: not daily (for according to the passage just quoted on 1023, the eagle comes tertio quoque die), but
διὰ
πάσης
τῆς
ἡμέρας. Cp. the use of
πανῆμαρ,
πανη-
μέριος in Homer. So Hesiod Theog. 523
καὶ
οἱ
ἐπ᾿
αἰετὸν
ὧρσε
τανύπτε-
ρον·
αὐτὰρ
ὅγ᾽
ἦπαρ
ἤσθιεν
ἀθάνατον·
τὸ
δ᾽
ἀέξετο
ἶσον
ἁπάντῃ
νυκτὸς,
ὅσον
πρόπαν
ἦμαρ
ἔδοι
τανυσίπτερος
ὄρνις.
1025.
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1025.
κελαινόβρωτον:
τὸ
μελαινό-
μενον
ἐκ
τῆς
βρώσεως, Schol. Prolep- tic. –
ἐκθοινάσεται: see on 61.
1027.
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1027.
θεῶν
τις
διάδοχος
κτἑ.: this is really fulfilled, for Heracles offers to Zeus the centaur Chiron
(θεὸν
Χείρωνα, Soph. Trach. 714) as a vol- untary
(θελήση) substitute for Pro-
metheus. See Introd. p. 12. Here, indeed, Hermes announces the contin- gency as one inconceivable, or hardly to be expected. See on 27.
1029.
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1029.
ἀμφί: see on 830, and cp. Hom. Hymn ii. 157
Τιτῆνές
τε
θεοὶ
τοὶ
ὑπὸ
χθονὶ
ναιετάοντες
Τάρταρον
ἀμφὶ
μέγαν (somewhere in Tartarus), Eur. Andr. 215
εἰ
δ᾽
ἀμφὶ
Θρήκην ...
τύ-
ραννον
ἔσχες
ἄνδρα (in some part of Thrace). The conception is that of an unknown point inside a given re- gion. This suggests the idea of look- ing "round about" that region.
1030.
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1030 f.
πεπλασμένος
ὁ
κόμπος ...
ὀρθούμενος : cp. Hdt. vii. 103
οὕτω
μὲν
ὀρθοῖτ᾽
ἂν
ὁ
λόγος...
εἰ
δὲ ...
ὅρα
μὴ
μάτην
κόμπος
ὁ
λόγος
οὗτος
εἰρημένος
ἢ, Thuc. ii. 41
ὡς
οὐ
λόγων
ἐν
τῷ
πα-
ρόντι
κόμπος
τάδε
μᾶλλον
ἢ
ἔργων
ἐστὶν
ἀλήθεια,
αὐτὴ
ἡ
δύναμις
τῆς
πόλεως
ση-
μαίνει, Soph.
Ο.
Τ. 828
ἆρ᾽
οὐκ
ἀπ᾿
ὠμοῦ
ταῦτα
δαίμονός
τις
ἂν
κρίνων
ἐπ᾿
ἀνδρὶ
τῷδ᾽
ἂν
ὀρθοίη
λόγον;
Αί. 354
οἴμ᾽,
ὡς
ἔοικας
ὀρθὰ
μαρτυρεῖν
ἄγαν. –
καὶ
λίαν : this frequent combination occurs even in Homer. Od. i. 46
καὶ
λίην
κεῖνός
γε
ἐοικότι
κεῖται
ὀλέθρῳ, also xiii. 393, xv. 155.
1032.
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1032.
ψευδηγορεῖν: Zeus says, Il.
i. 526,
οὐ
γὰρ
ἐμὸν
παλινάγρετον
οὐδ᾽
ἀπατηλὸν
οὐδ᾽
ἀτελεύτητον
ὅ
τι
κεν
κε-
φαλῇ
κατανεύσω.
1035.
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1035.
ἄμεινον: for the neuter cp. Suppl. 190
κρεῖσσον
δὲ
πύργου
βωμός. G. 138,
м. 2 c;
Η. 617. -
ἡγήσῃ
ποτέ: be at length convinced (cp.
ποτέ in 999). The negation belongs properly only to
αὐθαδίαν
εὐβουλίας
ἄμεινονv, although
μηδέ has influenced the mood of
ἡγήσῃ (for
ἥγησαι). – For the form of ex- pression, cp. Eur. Cycl. 310
τὸ
δ᾽
εὐσε-
βὲς
τῆς
δυσσεβείας
ἀνθελοῦ.
1037.
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1037. The leader of the chorus reiterates the foregoing sentiment.
See
on
472.