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Prometheus Bound. Aeschylus. ed. Herbert Weir Smyth. New York. 1922.

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Προμηθεὺς δεσμώτης (Greek) (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.)

Editions (5)
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 1080 focus
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 1080 focus
ΠΡΟΜΗθΕΥΣ ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΡΟΜΗθΕΥΣ ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1080 focus
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 1080 focus
καὶ μὴν ἔργῳ κοὐκέτι μύθῳ
Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 1080 focus
Translations (9)
Prometheus Bound Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 1080 focus
Prometheus Bound. (OCR draft) Experimental (Prometheus Bound.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 1080 focus
And verily in deed and no longer in word doth the earth heave, and the roaring echo of thunder rolls bellowing by us; and deep blazing wreaths of lightning are glaring, and hurricanes whirl the dust; and blasts of all the winds are leaping forth, shewing one against the other a strife of conflict gusts ; and the firmament is embroiled with the deep
. Such is this onslaught that is clearly coming upon me from Jove, a cause for terror. O dread majesty of my mother Earth, O aether that diffusest thy common light, thou beholdest the wrongs I suffer.
PROMÉTHÉE ENCHAINÉ (OCR draft) Experimental (PROMÉTHÉE ENCHAINÉ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1080 focus
et non plus des mots : la terre vacille ; dans ses profondeurs, en même temps,
Prometheus Chained (OCR draft) Experimental (Prometheus Chained. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 1080 focus
He ſables not; I feel in very deed
The firm earth rock; the thunder's deep'ning roar
Rolls with redoubled rage; the bick'ring flames
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Flaſh thick;
the eddying ſands are whirl'd on high;
In dreadful oppoſition the wild winds
Rend the vex'd air; the boiſterous billows riſe
Confounding ſea and ſky;
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th' impetuous ſtorm
Rolls all its terrible fury on my head.
Seeſt thou this, aweful Themis; and thou, Æther,
Thro' whoſe pure azure floats the general ſtream
Of liquid light, ſee you what wrongs I ſuffer!
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Eschilo, Prometeo legato: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Prometeo legato: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 1080 focus
Ecco i fatti, e non piú le parole.
La terra sussulta,
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mugghia l'eco del tuono profonda,
tutte fiamma le spire lampeggiano
delle folgori, a vortici va
roteando la polvere, dànzano,
l'un con l'altro azzuffandosi i soffî,
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tutti i venti: confusi con l'ètere
si sconvolgono i flutti del mare.
Tanta furia scoscende da Giove
contro me, perché tremi il mio cuore.
Di mia madre o tu fregio, o tu ètere,
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tu che a tutti comparti la luce,
l'ingiustizia ch'io soffro mirate !
Aeschylus, Prometheus vinctus: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Prometheus vinctus: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 1080 focus
Et tamen opere, & no amplius sermone, terra
Fremens sonus resonat
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Tonitru, faces splendidunt
Fulminis ignitæ, & turbines puluerem
Torquent, insultant ventorum
Spiritus omnium inter se,
Contrarij seditionem excitant,
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Mixtus est aer mari.
Talis impetus à Iove mihi
Contingens, mouet metum manifestè,
O' matris mei cultus, ô omnibus
Æther commune lumen voluens,
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Vides me quàm iniusta patior.
PROMETHEI FINIS.
Prometheus Bound (OCR draft) Experimental (Prometheus Bound. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 1080 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.) — 1080 focus
Hark! for no more in empty word,
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But in sheer sooth, the world is stirred!
The massy earth doth heave and sway,
And thro' their dark and secret way
The cavern'd thunders boom!
See, how they gleam athwart the sky,
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The lightnings, through the gloom!
And whirlwinds roll the dust on high,
And right and left the storm-clouds leap
To battle in the skyey deep,
In wildest uproar unconfined,
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An universe of warring wind!
And falling sky and heaving sea
Are blent in one! on me, on me,
Nearer and ever yet more near,
Flaunting its pageantry of fear,
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Drives down in might its destined road
The tempest of the wrath of God!
O holy Earth, O mother mine!
O Sky, that biddest speed along
Thy vault the common Light divine,—
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Be witness of my wrong!
[ The rocks are rent with fire and earthquake, and fall, burying Prometheus in the ruins.
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.) — 1080 focus
Schon wird es zur That, es erfüllt sich das Wort:
Auf schüttert der Grund,
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Und der Donner in dumpf nachhallendem Schlag
Brüllt laut, und es zuckt in geschlängelten Loh'n
Aufflammend der Blik; hoch jagen den Staub
Sturmwirbel empor, und alle zumal
Wild jagen die Wind', in feindlichem Hauch
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Mit des Aufruhrs Wuth auf einander gestürzt;
Und der Aether vermählt sich der wogenden See.
So stürzt das Gericht, von Kronion gesandt,
Mich schreckend mit Grau'n, sichtbar auf mich.
O heilige Mutter, o Aether, du,
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Der das Licht hinrollt, das Alles durchdringt,
Ihr seht, was ich dulde mit Unrecht!
(Prometheus sinkt mit dem Felsen in den Abgrund.)

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

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1040-1093. The catastrophe. Five anapaestic systems, of which the pair spoken by Prometheus (14 = 14) and the pair spoken by Her- mes (99) correspond in length, while the system of the Coryphaeus forms the mesode.

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1080. ἔργῳ κοὐκέτι μύθῳ: cр. 336. Stage thunder and lightning the ancients produced by a thunder- machine (βροντεῖον) and a lightning- tower (κεραυνοσκοπεῖον). Skins filled with heavy stones were rolled on copper plates behind the scene, and a revolving contrivance aloft (περίακτος ὑψηλή) emitted flashes of light. The quaking of the earth may have been indicated by the turning of the two περίακτοι. The ancients in such things demanded only hints and sym- bols, not illusions.

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1081. The monometer (see on 97) takes the place of a dimeter; see on 1040.

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1082. βρυχία : Hesych. βρύχιος · ὑποβρύχιος, i.e. under the surface. Cp. Pers. 397 ἔπαισαν ἅλμην βρύχιον. ‘Vo- cabulum βρύχιος eo hic significatu dictum est, quo etiam ὑποβρύχιος in- terdum non id quod in aqua demer- sum est, sed omnino quod est aliqua re obrutum denotat' (Hermann). Ac- cordingly βρυχία ἠχὼ βροντῆς means the same as χθόνια βροντήματα, 994. With the description cp. Hesiod Theog. 705 τόσσος δοῦπος ἔγεντο θεῶν ἔριδι ξυνιόντων· σὺν δ᾽ ἄνεμοί τ᾽ ἔνοσίς τε κονίην ἐσφαράγιζον.

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1083 f. ἕλικες: αἱ ἑλικοειδεῖς (zig- zag) κατὰ τὰ νέφη τῶν ἀστραπῶν κινή- σεις, Schol. Cp. 1044. – ζάπυροι: cp. ζαπληθῆ Pers. 316. – στρόμβοι: He- sych. στρόμβος· δίνος, συστροφὴ ἀνέ- -
μου. – κόνῖν : for the quantity, cp. Suppl. 180 ὁρῶ κόνῖν ἄναυδον, Cho. 928 τόνδ᾽ ὄφῖν ἐθρεψάνην, Suppl. 782 κόνις ἄτερθε, Cho. 544 οὕφῖς ἐμοῖσι.

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1087. ἀντίπνουν: as a rule, only the mediae (β, γ, δ) before λ, μ, ν make position in thesis in dramatic poetry. Lengthenings like this in anapaests are found Ar. Av. 216 ἕδρας, 579 ἆγρῶν. – For the contraction see on 917.

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1090. φανερώς: belongs with Διό- θεν, evidently from Zeus and none other. τεύχουσα φόβον stands in a causal re- lation to it.

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1091. ὦ μητρὸς ἐμῆς: ὦ Γἢ ἡ ὦ Θέμις (read & Γῆ Θέμι, see on 210), Schol. In huiusmodi obtestatione eos appellari deos convenit, quorum vis et potestas universam rerum na- turam complectitur, i.e. caelum et terram, quo quidquid usquam testari insigne facinus possit, uno complexu comprehendatur' (Hermann). Cp. Soph. Εl. 86 & φάος ἁγνὸν καὶ γῆς ἰσό- μοιρ᾿ ἀήρ. – σέβας: cp. Eum. 885 ἀλλ᾿ εἰ μὲν ἁγνόν ἐστί σοι Πειθοῦς σέβας.

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1092. φάος εἱλίσσων : cp. Eur. Phoen. 3 "Ήλιε, θοαῖς ἵπποισιν εἱλίσ- σων φλόγα, Theodect. Frg. 10 (р. 805 Nauck) & καλλιφεγγῆ λαμπάδ᾽ εἰλίσ- σων φλογός, Ηλιε. Here φάος is the proper light of the φαεννὸς αἰθήρ.

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1093. Prometheus sinks into the depths, with the rock on which he hangs (1019).