Prometheus Bound. Aeschylus. Robert Potter (Translator). London. 1779.
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Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 561-573 focus
Ἰώ
τίς γῆ; τί γένος; τίνα φῶ λεύσσειν
τόνδε χαλινοῖς
1
ἐν πετρίνοισιν
χειμαζόμενον;
τίνος ἀμπλακίας ποινὰς ὀλέκει;
σήμηνον ὅποι
565
γῆς ἡ μογερὰ πεπλάνημαι.
566
τίς γῆ; τί γένος; τίνα φῶ λεύσσειν
τόνδε χαλινοῖς
1
ἐν πετρίνοισιν
χειμαζόμενον;
τίνος ἀμπλακίας ποινὰς ὀλέκει;
σήμηνον ὅποι
565
γῆς ἡ μογερὰ πεπλάνημαι.
Προμηθεὺς δεσμώτης Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 561-573 focus
Ἰώ
τίς γῆ; τί γένος; τίνα φῶ λεύσσειν
τόνδε χαλινοῖς ἐν πετρίνοισιν
χειμαζόμενον;
τίνος ἀμπλακίας ποινὰς ὀλέκῃ;
σήμηνον ὅποι γῆς ἡ μογερὰ πεπλάνημαι.
565
τίς γῆ; τί γένος; τίνα φῶ λεύσσειν
τόνδε χαλινοῖς ἐν πετρίνοισιν
χειμαζόμενον;
τίνος ἀμπλακίας ποινὰς ὀλέκῃ;
σήμηνον ὅποι γῆς ἡ μογερὰ πεπλάνημαι.
565
Ἰώ
ἆ ἆ, ἒ ἔ,
χρίει τις αὖ με τὰν τάλαιναν οἶστρος,
εἴδωλον Ἄργου γηγενοῦς, ἄλευʼ ἆ δᾶ· φοβοῦμαι
τὸν μυριωπὸν εἰσορῶσα βούταν.
ὁ δὲ πορεύεται δόλιον ὄμμʼ ἔχων,
570
ὃν οὐδὲ κατθανόντα γαῖα κεύθει.
ἀλλʼ, ἐμὲ τὰν τάλαιναν
ἐξ ἐνέρων περῶν κυναγετεῖ, πλανᾷ
τε νῆστιν ἀνὰ τὰν παραλίαν ψάμμαν.
ἆ ἆ, ἒ ἔ,
χρίει τις αὖ με τὰν τάλαιναν οἶστρος,
εἴδωλον Ἄργου γηγενοῦς, ἄλευʼ ἆ δᾶ· φοβοῦμαι
τὸν μυριωπὸν εἰσορῶσα βούταν.
ὁ δὲ πορεύεται δόλιον ὄμμʼ ἔχων,
570
ὃν οὐδὲ κατθανόντα γαῖα κεύθει.
ἀλλʼ, ἐμὲ τὰν τάλαιναν
ἐξ ἐνέρων περῶν κυναγετεῖ, πλανᾷ
τε νῆστιν ἀνὰ τὰν παραλίαν ψάμμαν.
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 552 focus
ἔμαθον τάδε σὰς προσιδοῦσ᾽ ὀλοὰς τύχας, Προμηθεῦ.
τὸ διαμφίδιον δέ μοι μέλος προσέπτα
555
τόδ᾽ ἐκεῖνό θ᾽ ὅ τ᾽ ἀμφὶ λουτρὰ
καὶ λέχος σὸν ὑμεναίουν
ἰότατι γάμων, ὅτε τὰν ὁμοπάτριον ἕδνοις
ἄγαγες Ἡσιόναν πιθὼν δάμαρτα κοινόλεκτρον.
560
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.
θνατῶν παρεξίασι βουλαί.
550
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
Ἔμαθον τάδε σὰς προσιδοῦσ'
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
θων πιθὼν seu ποθῶν δάμαρτα κοινόλεκτρον.
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 552 focus
ἔμαθον τάδε σὰς
προσιδοῦσ᾽ ὀλοὰς
τύχας, Προμηθεῦ. τὸ διαμφίδιον
δέ μοι μέλος προσέπτα
τόδ᾽ ἐκεῖνό θ᾽ ὅτ' ἀμφὶ λουτρὰ
575
καὶ λέχος σὸν ὑμεναίουν
ἰότατι γάμων,
ὅτε τὰν ὁμοπάτριον
ἕδνοις ἄγαγες Ἡσιόναν
πείθων δάμαρτα κοινόλεκτρον.
580
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 (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.)) — 561-570 focus
Enter Io
1
566
Io
What land is this? What people? By what name am I to call the one I see exposed to the tempest in bonds of rock? What offence have you committed that as punishment you are doomed to destruction?
Tell me to what region of the earth I have wandered in my wretchedness?
565
566
What land is this? What people? By what name am I to call the one I see exposed to the tempest in bonds of rock? What offence have you committed that as punishment you are doomed to destruction?
Tell me to what region of the earth I have wandered in my wretchedness?
565
Oh, oh! Aah! Aah! A gad-fly, phantom of earth-born Argus is stinging me again! Keep him away, O Earth! I am fearful when I behold that myriad-eyed herdsman. He travels onward with his crafty gaze upon me;
not even in death does the earth conceal him, but passing from the shades he hounds me, the forlorn one, and drives me famished along the sands of the seashore.
570
Oh, oh! Aah! Aah! A gad-fly, phantom of earth-born Argus is stinging me again! Keep him away, O Earth! I am fearful when I behold that myriad-eyed herdsman. He travels onward with his crafty gaze upon me;
not even in death does the earth conceal him, but passing from the shades he hounds me, the forlorn one, and drives me famished along the sands of the seashore.
570
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,
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,
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.
e ai tuoi lavacri, il giorno
che sposa alla tua casa
la mia sorella Esíone
655
venne: ché i doni tuoi l'ebber suasa.
3
TERZO EPISODIO
Una fanciulla di viso bellissimo, ma deturpato da due corna di giovenca,
si lancia tra le rupi con folli balzi, e si ferma davanti a Prometeo.
IO
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.
Anceps mihi cantio accidit,
Hoc & illud pro lauacris, & lecto,
550
Tuum Hymeneum desiderio nuptiarum, premis
Duxisti Hesionam tunc sororem,
Persuadens uxorem coniugem.
Io.
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.
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
Io
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.)
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.
Commentary
Critical apparatus to Prometheus Bound (OCR draft) (Latin and Greek critical apparatus to Gottfried Hermann's 1852 edition of Prometheus Bound.) focus
552.
mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-622
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.
552.
mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-623
μέλος:
μέλεις Lips.
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
526-560.
mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-wecklein-allen1893-com-eng1-358
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.