Aeschylus Prometheus Bound 113

Anna Swanwick (Translator)

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PROMETHEUS
Io, thy task it is their wish to grant,
The more so as thy father's sisters they.
Besides, fair guerdon waits on lengthened tale,
When to deplore and wail one's evil plight
Draws from the listeners the kindly tear.

Prometheus Bound. Aeschylus. Anna Swanwick (Translator). London. 1886.

Sponsored by University of Leipzig.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition Experimental

Prometheus Bound (OCR draft) (English) (Prometheus Bound. Anna Swanwick, 1886.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (7)
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 128-194 focus
Προμηθεὺς δεσμώτης Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 128-195 focus
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 114 focus
ἆ ἆ,
τίς ἀχὼ, τίς ὀδμὰ προσέπτα μ᾽ ἀφεγγὴς,
115
θεόσυτος, ἢ βρότειος, ἢ κεκραμένη;
τίς ἵκετ᾽ αἴας τερμόνειον ἐπὶ πάγον
πόνων ἐμῶν θεωρὸς, ἢ τί δὴ θέλων;
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 114 focus
ἔα ἔα.
τίς ἀχώ, τίς ὀδμὰ προςέπτα μ' ἀφεγγής;
115
θεόσυτος ἢ βρότειος ἢ κεκραμένη;
ἵκετο τερμόνιον ἐπὶ πάγον
πόνων ἐμῶν θεωρός, ἢ τί δὴ θέλων;
ὁρᾶτε δεσμώτην με δύςποτμον θεόν,
τὸν Διὸς ἐχθρόν, τὸν πᾶσι θεοῖς
120
ΠΡΟΜΗθΕΥΣ ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΡΟΜΗθΕΥΣ ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 114 focus
Α α, ἔα ἔα,
τίς ἀχώ, τίς ὀδμὰ
115
προσέπτα μ' ἀφεγγής ;
θεόσυτος, ἢ βρότειος, ἢ κεκραμένη ;
ἵκετο τερμόνιον ἐπὶ πάγον
πόνων ἐμῶν θεωρός, ἢ τί δὴ θέλων ;
Ὁρᾶτε δεσμώτην με δύσποτμον θεόν,
120
τὸν Διὸς ἐχθρόν, τὸν πᾶσι θεοῖς
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 114 focus
Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 114 focus
ἀἀ ἔα ἔα.
τίς ἀχώ, τίς ὀδμὰ προσέπτα μ᾿ ἀφεγγής;
115
θεόσυτος ἢ βρότειος ἢ κεκραμένη;
τερμόνιον ἵκετ᾽ ἐπὶ πάγον πόνων ἐμῶν
Translations (8)
Prometheus Bound Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 128-195 focus
Prometheus Bound. (OCR draft) Experimental (Prometheus Bound.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 114 focus
Hah! what sound, what ineffable odour
hath been wafted to me, emanating from a god, or from mortal, or of some intermediate nature? Has there come any one to the remote rock as a spectator of my sufferings, or with what intent
! Behold me an ill-fated god in durance, the foe of Jupiter,
PROMÉTHÉE ENCHAINÉ (OCR draft) Experimental (PROMÉTHÉE ENCHAINÉ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 114 focus
Voilà les fautes dont je paie la peine aux dieux, dans ces liens qui me clouent ici à la face du Ciel !
Animé.

Ah ! ah ! quel bruit, quel parfum invisible a volé jusqu'à moi ? Vient-il d'un dieu ? d'un homme ? d'un être tenant de tous deux ? A ce roc, frontière du monde, on vient donc contempler mes maux ? Ou bien que me veut-on ? Ah ! voyez enchaîné un dieu misérable !
Mélodrame.

C'est l'ennemi de Zeus, c'est celui qui a encouru la haine de tous les dieux qui fréquentent le palais
Prometheus Chained (OCR draft) Experimental (Prometheus Chained. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 114 focus
Ah me! what ſound, what ſoftly-breathing odour e
Eschilo, Prometeo legato: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Prometeo legato: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 114 focus
maestra fu d'ogni arte, ed util sommo.
130
Di tal misfatto pago il fio, nei lacci,
a cielo aperto, turpemente avvinto.
Si ode una soave musica lontana.
Ahimè, ahimè !
Che voce, che ineffabile fragranza
alïa verso me,
135
di Nume, d'uomo, o d'ambedue commista ?
Aeschylus, Prometheus vinctus: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Prometheus vinctus: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 114 focus
Heu heu.
120
Quæ uox, quis odor mihi obſcurus accidit:
Aut diuinâ, aut mortalis, aut mixta,
Venit ad ultimum saxum,
Meos labores ſpeculatúra, aut quid uolens?
Videte uinctum me, infælicem deum,
125
Iouis inimicum, & cum omnibus dijs
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.) — 114 focus
[ A pause.
Listen! what breath of sound, what fragrance soft hath risen
Upward to me? is it some godlike essence,
Or being half-divine, or mortal presence?
Who to the world's end comes, unto my craggy prison?
130
Craves he the sight of pain, or what would he behold?
Gaze on a god in tortures manifold,
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.) — 114 focus
Horch, horch!
Was scholl? Welcher Duft weht von dorther unsichtbar
Mich an? Von Göttern? Menschen? Oder beider Art?
115
Kam zu dem äußersten Felsen ein Fremdling, 1
Mein Leid zu schauen? Oder was verlangt er sonst?
O seht in Fesseln mich, den unglücksel'gen Gott,

Commentary

Critical apparatus to Prometheus Bound (OCR draft) (Latin and Greek critical apparatus to Gottfried Hermann's 1852 edition of Prometheus Bound.) focus

113. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-114

πασσαλευτὸς ὤν:
πασσαλευτός
, omisso
ὤν
, G. Lips. Aug. et plerique codices.
πασσαλευμένος
Μ. et alii codices,
πασσαλευόμενος
Cantabr. 2.
δεσμοῖσι πεπασσαλευμένος
Rob.
πασσαλευτὸς ὢν
receptum inde a Turnebo.

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

1-127. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-wecklein-allen1893-com-eng1-1

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1-127: Prologue (πρόλογος).

88-127. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-wecklein-allen1893-com-eng1-69

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88-127. Second Scene. Pro- metheus alone. With this invocation of the elements cp. Il. iii. 277 ἠέλιός θ' ὃς πάντ᾽ ἐφορᾶς καὶ πάντ᾽ ἐπακούεις, καὶ ποταμοὶ καὶ γαῖα, Soph. Phil. 936& λιμένες, ὦ προβλῆτες, ὦ ξυνουσίαι θηρῶν ὀρείων, ὦ καταρρῶγες πέτραι, ὑμῖν τάδ', οὐ γὰρ ἄλλον οἶδ᾽ ὅτῳ λέγω, ἀνακλαίομαι. Apsines (Rhet. Gr. ed. Spengel I. p. 400) says: κινεῖ δὲ ἔλεον καὶ λόγος πρὸς τόπον τινὰ γινόμενος.

113. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-wecklein-allen1893-com-eng1-88

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113. ὑπαιθρίοις: explains προυσε- λούμενος; the insult of the punish- ment consists in its publicity, See also 158. Prometheus lays stress on the ignominious nature of his punish- ment, 97, 177, 195, 227, 256, 438, 525. For the connexion of ὑπαιθρίοις and δεσμοῖσι, see on ἀφεγγής 115. – πρου- σελούμενος: this word recurs 438; it is found elsewhere only in Ar. Ran. 730 (προυσελοῦμεν). Cp. Etym. Mag. p. 690, 11 προυσελεῖν λέγουσι τὸ ὑβρί- ζειν. It is therefore equivalent to αἰκίζομαι, the word employed in most of the similar passages of this play (cp. Hesych. προυγελεῖν· προπηλακί- ζειν, ὑβρίζειν). The etymology of the word is unknown: it has been proposed to derive it from προσεέλ- λειν, on the supposition that the digamma, falling out after o, has lengthened the preceding syllable, as in θεουδής (θεοδρής).
114-127 announce the approach of the chorus and accompany (from 120 on) the movements of the winged chariot. Similarly in the Electra of Sophocles anapaests of Electra ac- company the entrance of the chorus.