Aeschylus Prometheus Bound 155

Anna Swanwick (Translator)

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Ah me! ah woe is me!
Brain-smiting madness once again
Inflames me, and convulsive pain.
The gad-fly's barb, not wrought with fire,
Stings me; against my breast

Kicks my pent heart with fear oppressed.
901
Mine eyeballs roll in dizzy gyre;
Out of my course by frenzy's blast
I'm borne. My tongue brooks not the rein,
And turbid words, at random cast,
'Gainst waves of hateful madness beat in vain.

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.) — 152 focus
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 152 focus
ΠΡΟΜΗθΕΥΣ ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΡΟΜΗθΕΥΣ ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 152 focus
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 152 focus
εἰ γάρ μ' ὑπὸ γῆν νέρθεν θ' Ἅιδου
τοῦ νεκροδέγμονος
εἰς ἀπέραντον Τάρταρον ἧκεν,
δεσμοῖς ἀλύτοις ἀγρίοις πελάσας,
ὡς μήτε θεὸς μήτε τις ἄλλος
165
τοῖσδ᾽ ἐπεγήθει.
νῦν δ᾽ αἰθέριον κίνυγμ᾽ ὁ τάλας
ἐχθροῖς ἐπίχαρτα πέπονθα.
Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 152 focus
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.) — 152 focus
Oh would that he had sent me beneath the earth, and below into the boundless Tartarus of Hades that receives the dead, after savagely securing me in indissoluble bonds, so that no god at any time, nor any other being, had exulted in this my doom. Whereas now, hapless one, I, the sport of the winds, suffer pangs that gladden my foes.
PROMÉTHÉE ENCHAINÉ (OCR draft) Experimental (PROMÉTHÉE ENCHAINÉ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 152 focus
mes ennemis !
Prometheus Chained (OCR draft) Experimental (Prometheus Chained. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 152 focus
Beneath the earth,
Beneath the gulfs of Tartarus, g
that ſpread
Interminable o'er the dead,
160
Had his ſtern fury fix'd this rigid chain,
Nor gods, nor men had triumph'd in my pain.
But pendent in th' ætherial air,
The pageant gratifies my ruthleſs foes,
That gaze, inſult, and glory in my woes. h
165
Eschilo, Prometeo legato: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Prometeo legato: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 152 focus
Prometeo, veggo. Ed una fosca nuvola
di lagrimose stille
mi preme le pupille,
te contemplando in lacci indissolubili
170
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Aeschylus, Prometheus vinctus: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Prometheus vinctus: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 152 focus
Sì uerò me sub terram ad inferos
Mortiferos in immenſum
Tartarum misiſſet, uinculis in disſolutis
Ferociter appropinquans, ut neque Deus,
160
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.) — 152 focus
Had he but hurled me, far beneath
170
The vast and ghostly halls of Death,
Down to the limitless profound
Of Tartarus, in fetters bound,
Fixed by his unrelenting hand!
So had no man, nor God on high,
175
Exulted o'er mine agony—
But now, a sport to wind and sky,
Mocked by my foes, I stand!
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.) — 152 focus
O hätt' er hinab in den Hades mich
Zu den Todten gestürzt, in der Tartarosnacht
Unermeßliche Kluft, mit unlösbarem Band
Zornvoll mich umstrickt, daß weder ein Gott
155
Noch ein Anderer sonst frohlockte darob!
Nun schweb' ich den Lüften ein Spielwerk hier,
Muß dulden zur Lust für die Feinde !
Zweite Strophe.

Commentary

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

887. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1001

παίουσ':
πταίουσ'
Par. L.
παύουσ'
Par. Κ.
παίουσιν
G.
παίουσ'
etiam M. habere videtur. Hoc dicit, perturbala dicta mea illiduntur (h. e. luctantur) diri fluctibus fati.

888. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1002

πρὸς κύμασιν:
στυγνοῖς
Cantabr. 1. 2. Par. L. Vind. 1. 3.
στυγνῆς πρὸς κύμασι
G. et a pr. manu M. in quo a sec. manu
προς
factum est. In G. adscriptae hae interpretationes,
λυπηραῖς, ταραχαῖς
. Lips.
πρὸς κύμασιν ἄτης
, ad penultimam superscripto
ι
.

889. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1003

NA: Totam primam huius carminis stropham habet scholion haud dubie recentissimum ad primum epigramma Callimachi. Nicephorus Gregoras Hist. Byz. VIII. 14. p. 383. ed. Bonn.
ἦ σοφὸς ἦν ἄρ᾽ ἐκεῖνος ὃς πρῶτος ἐν γνώμῃ τόδ᾽ ἐβάστασε καὶ γλώσσῃ διεμυθολόγησεν, εἴτε Θαλῆς ὁ Μιλήσιος ἦν, εἴτε Πλάτων ὁ Ἀρίστωνος, εἴτε καὶ ἄμφω, παρὰ θατέρου ἕτερος ἐκδεξάμενος, τό γ' ἑαυτὸν μακαρίζειν ἐκθύμως, ὅτι μὴ βάρβαρος, ἀλλ᾽ Ἕλλην γεγένηται
. Idem XXI. 5. p. 1025.
ἀλλὰ γὰρ ἦ σοφὸς ἦν ἐκεῖνος ὃς πρῶτος ἐν γνώμῃ τόδ᾽ ἐβάστασε καὶ γλώττῃ διεμυθολόγησε, τὸν μακρὸν ἅπαντα φύειν τ' ἄδηλα χρόνον καὶ τὰ φανέντα καλύπτειν·
quae posteriora ex Sophoclis Aiace v. 646. sumpta sunt.

890. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1004

γνώμᾳ:
γνώμᾳ
, superscripto
ῃ
, Lips.

890. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1005

ἐβάστασε:
ἐβάσταζε
Par. Ε. et e corr. Lips. in quo fuerat
ἐβάσταξε
.

890-891. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1006

γλώσσᾳ:
γλώσσῃ
G. Ald. Rob.
γλώσσα
, superscripto
ῃ
, Lips.
γλῶσσα
a pr. manu M. ex quo factum
γλώσσαι
.

891. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1007

διεμυθολόγησεν:
διεμυθολόγησε
Vit.

892. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1008

ἀριστεύει: Eustathius p. 717, 4. et 758, 63.
ὡς τὸ κηδεύειν καθ' ἑαυτὸν ἀριστεύει μακρύ
.
ἀριστεύοι
Lips.
ἀριστεύειν
G. Bess. Ald.

893. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1009

πλούτῳ:
πλούτου
, superscripto
ῳ
, Vit.

894. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1010

γέννᾳ:
γένα
G.

895. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1011

ὄντα:
ὄντα
omittit G.

895. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1012

χερνήτην:
χερνήταν
, ultimae vocali superscripto
η
, Lips.

896. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1013

μήποτε, μήποτέ μ', ὦ:
μήποτε μήποτέ μ' ὦ
M. Vit. Rob. Τurn.
μήποτε μήποτ᾽ ὦ
G. Lips. aliique et Ald.
μήποτέ με ὦ
pauci codices.

897. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1014

λεχέων Διὸς: Manifestum est post
Μοῖραι
excidisse quattuor syllabas. Non inepte coniiciat quis epitheto quo Sophocles usus est in Ant. v. 987. dixisse Aeschylum
ὦ Μοῖραι μακραίωνες
, quod hic ad futurum tempus esset referendum.
Διὸς λεχέων
Lips. aliique nonnulli.
Διός
omittunt Vit. aliique nonnulli et Ald. Turn.
λεχέων
omittit Par. L.

899. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1015

πλαθείην:
πλαθείην
M. Lips. Ox.
πλασθείην
G. Vit. aliique et edd. vett.

899. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1016

γαμέτᾳ:
γαμετᾷ
a pr. manu M. ex quo
γαμέτᾳ
a sec. manu factum.
ἐν γαμετᾷ
Lips. Ald. Rob.
ἐν γαμέτᾳ
G. Vit. Cantabr. 1. Par. C. D. E. Ven. 3. Turn. Delevit importunam praepositionem, quae a M. et, ut videtur, ab aliis abest, Canterus.

900. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1017

NA: Vehementer falsus est Doederlinus, qui ad Sophoclis Oed. Col. 563. quod
ἄστοργος
aliquando de homine dicatur, ita explicandum putavit
ἀστεργάνορα
, ut Io Iovi nupsisse significaretur, tamquam mortalium nuptiis sibi non suffecturis. Placuit hoc Halmio in Lectionum Aeschylearum parte priore. At nec nupsit Io Iovi, nec potest
ἀστεργάνωρ
illo significatu dici. Domo pulsa Io insania agitata fugit machinis Iunonis. Itaque virginitas eius dicitur non amans alicuius mariti, i. e. expers connubii.

901. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1018

εἰςορῶσ':
εἰσοροῦσ᾽
Lips.

901. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1019

Ἰοῦς:
Ἰὼ
ex correctione, quum prius
love
scriptum fuisset, Vit.

901. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1020

μέγα δαπτομέναν:
γάμῳ (γάμῳ Rob. Turn.) δαπτομέναν
M. Rob. Turn. et superscripto ultimae syllabae
η
Lips.
γάμῳ δαπτομένην
G. Vit.
γάμῳ
Par. Ε.
γάμων
Ven. 3.
με γάμῳ
Bess. Ald.
δαπανομένην
Colb. 1. Par. D.
δαπανωμένων
Par. G.
δ᾽ ἀπτομένην
Ald. Optime Schützius emendavit
μέγα δαπτομέναν
.

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

887-906. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-wecklein-allen1893-com-eng1-564

1
2
887-906. Third Stasimon. For the dactylo-epitritic rhythms, see on 526. The tranquil reflexions of the chorus contrast agreeably with the turmoil of the preceding scene.

887. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-wecklein-allen1893-com-eng1-565

3
4
887. ή σοφός: the scholiast ex- plains that Pittacus is meant, who, when consulted by a man in doubt whether to marry a rich woman, or a poorer one whose rank was the same as his own, directed his ques- tioner to listen to a group of boys who were playing at tops close by. These were heard to cry τὴν καθ᾽ ἑαυ- τὸν ἔλαυνε. Αn epigram of Callima- chus, in Diog. Laert. i. 80, gives τὴν κατὰ σαυτὸν ἔλα. Another scholiast compares Pind. Pyth. ii. 64 χρὴ δὲ καθ᾽ αὑτὸν αἰεὶ παντὸς ὁρᾶν μέτρον, εὐναὶ δὲ παράτροποι ἐς κακότατ᾽ ἀθρόαν ἔβαλον ποτὶ κοῖτον ἰόντα. – In like manner a proverb is introduced in Soph. Ant. 620 σοφίᾳ γὰρ ἔκ του κλει- νὸν ἔπος πέφανται. Cp. Ag. 369 οὐκ ἔφα τις θεοὺς βροτῶν ἀξιοῦσθαι μέλειν κτέ., 750 παλαίφατος δ᾽ ἐν βροτοῖς γέρων
λόγος τέτυκται, Cho. 313 δράσαντι πα- θεῖν τριγέρων μῦθος τάδε φωνεῖ. - On the omission of ἦν see Krüger I. § 62, 1, 6.

888. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-wecklein-allen1893-com-eng1-566

5
6
888. ἐβάστασε: weighed (by lifting). The scholiast explains by ἐδοκίμασεν, and quotes Od. xxi. 405 ἐπεὶ μέγα τόξον ἐβάστασε καὶ ἴδε πάντῃ. Cp. Ar. Thesm. 438 πάσας δ' ἰδέας ἐξήτασεν, πάντα δ᾽ ἐβάστασεν φρενί, Polyb. viii. 18 πᾶν ἐβάστασε πρᾶγμα καὶ πᾶσαν ἐπίνοιαν ἐψηλάφα.

891. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-wecklein-allen1893-com-eng1-567

7
8
891 f. διαθρυπτομένων, μεγαλυνο- μένων: the assonance is significant; wealth and birth are equally value- less.

895. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-wecklein-allen1893-com-eng1-568

9
10
895 f. εὐνάτειραν ... πλαθείην : cp. Soph. O. T. 1099 τίς σ᾽ ἔτικτε τᾶν μακραιώνων ἄρα Πανὸς ὀρεσσιβάτα πα- τρὸς πελασθεῖσ᾽, ἢ σε γ᾽ εὐνά - τειρα Λοξίου; – τῶν ἐξ οὐρανοῦ: as 902 κρεισσόνων θεῶν. The preposition ἐξ conveys the notion "descending to me from heaven." See on 702.

898. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-wecklein-allen1893-com-eng1-569

11
12
898. ἀστεργάνορα παρθενίαν : "vir- ginitatem viri sive proci non aman- μιση πελώς tem” ut φυξανορίᾳ Suppl. v. 9 "proco- rum fuga." Odium erga Iovem Io ipsa prodiderat v. 759' (Schütz). Cp. στυγάνορα 724, γάμον δυσάνορα Suppl. 1064.

899. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-wecklein-allen1893-com-eng1-570

13
14
899. ἀμαλαπτομέναν : cp. Lycophr. 34 ἠμάλαψε κάρχαρος κύων, Hesych. ἠμαλάψαι· κρύψαι, ἀφανίσαι (read ἠμά- λαψε· ἔκρυψε, ἠφάνισε)· Σοφοκλής Ὀδυσσεῖ μαινομένῳ. Also Photius p. 68, 3 ἠμάλαπτεν· ἔκρυπτεν, ἠφάνιζεν, Hesych. ἀμαλόν· ἁπαλόν, ἀσθενῆ (Eur. Heracl. 75).

900. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-wecklein-allen1893-com-eng1-571

15
16
900. δυσπλάνοις ἀλατείαις: ср. Ад. 1136 κακόποτμοι τύχαι, Pers. 711 βίο- τον εὐαίωνα, Soph. O. C. 716 εὐήρετ- μος πλάτα, Αί. 138 λόγος κακόθρους, Eur. Hipp. 200 εὐπήχεις χεῖρας. – ἀλατείαις πόνων: for the qualitative force of the attributive genitive see Krüger II. § 47, 5, 2; and cp. Eur. Iph. Α. 1230 πόνων τιθηνοὺς ἀποδιδοῦσά σοι τροφάς, Bacch. 1218 μόχθων (usu- ally read μοχθῶν) μυρίοις ζητήμασι, Soph. Αi. 888 τὸν μακρῶν ἀλάταν πόνων.

901. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-wecklein-allen1893-com-eng1-572

17
18
901. ἐμοὶ τιόμενος: sc. ἐστί. Cp. Pers. 1000 ἔταφον, οὐκ ἀμφὶ σκηναῖς τροχηλάτοισιν όπιθεν ἑπόμενοι (sc. εἰ- σίν), Eur. Ion 517 ἡ γὰρ ἀρχὴ τοῦ λόγου πρέπουσά μοι, also Eum. 546 ξενοτίμους ἐπιστροφὰς δωμάτων αἰδόμε- νός τις ἔστω. – ὁμαλὸς ὁ γάμος : = ὁμαλὸς ὢν ὁ γάμος, “when the union is equal (between equals)."