N. Wecklein Prometheus Bound 414.comm-414

F. D. Allen (Translator)

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Prometheus Bound. N. Wecklein. F. D. Allen (Translator). . .

Current edition Experimental

English commentary on Prometheus Bound (OCR draft) (English) (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.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (7)
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 399-435 focus
Προμηθεὺς δεσμώτης Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 399-435 focus
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 399 focus
πρόπασα δ᾽ ἤδη στονόεν λέλακε χώρα,
τὰν σὰν
συνομαιμόνων τε τιμὰν, ὁπόσοι τ᾽ ἔποικον ἁγνᾶς
410
Ασίας ἕδος νέμονται, μεγαλοστόνοισι σοῖς πήμασι συγκάμνουσι θνατοί.
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 399 focus
πρόπασα δ᾽ ἤδη στονόεν λέλακε χώρα,
μεγαλοσχήμονά τ' ἀρχαιοπρεπῆ 1 δα-
κρυχέει 2 στένουσα τὴν σὰν
ξυνομαιμόνων τε τιμάν·
410
ὁπόσοι τ᾽ ἔποικον ἁγνᾶς
Ἀσίας ἕδος νέμονται,
μεγαλοστόνοισι σοῖς πή-
μασι συγκάμνουσι θνητοί·
στρ. β'.
ΠΡΟΜΗθΕΥΣ ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΡΟΜΗθΕΥΣ ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 399 focus
στόνοεν λέλακε χώρα,
μεγαλοσχήμονά τ' ἀρχαι-
οπρεπῆ <τ' οἰχομέναν> στένουσι τὰν σὰν
1
ξυνομαιμόνων τε τιμάν,
410
ὁπόσοι τ' ἔποικον ἁγνᾶς
Ἀσίας ἕδος νέμονται
μεγαλοστόνοισι σοῖς πή-
μασι συγκάμνουσι θνατοί·
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 399 focus
στένω σε τᾶς οὐλομένας
τύχας, Προμηθεῦ,
δακρυσίστακτον δ᾽ ἀπ᾽ ὄσσων
415
ῥαδινῶν λειβομένα ῥέος παρειὰν
νοτίοις ἔτεγξα πηγαῖς·
ἀμέγαρτα γὰρ τάδε Ζεὺς
ἰδίοις νόμοις κρατύνων
ὑπερήφανον θεοῖς τοῖς
420
πάρος ἐνδείκνυσιν αἰχμήν.
πρόπασα δ᾽ ἤδη στονόεν
λέλακε χώρα,
μεγαλοσχήμονά τ᾽ ἀρχαι-
Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 399 focus
πρόπασα δ᾽ ἤδη στονόεν
λέλακε χώρα, μεγαλο-
σχήμονά τ᾽ ἀρχαιοπρεπῆ
στένουσι τὰν σὰν ξυνομαι-
μόνων τε τιμάν· ὁπόσοι
410
τ᾽ ἔποικον ἁγνᾶς Ἀσίας
ἕδος νέμονται, μεγαλοστόνοισι σοῖς
πήμασι συγκάμνουσι θνητοί· =
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.)) — 399-435 focus
Prometheus Bound. (OCR draft) Experimental (Prometheus Bound.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 399 focus
I bewail thee for thy lost fate, Prometheus. A flood of trickling tears from my yielding eyes has bedewed my cheek with its humid gushings: for Jupiter commanding this thine unenviable doom by laws of his own, displays his spear appearing superior o'er the gods of old
.
And now the whole land echoes with wailing—they wail thy stately and time-graced honours, and those of thy brethren; and all they of mortal race that occupy a dwelling neighbouring on hallowed Asia mourn with thy deeply-deplorable sufferings:
PROMÉTHÉE ENCHAINÉ (OCR draft) Experimental (PROMÉTHÉE ENCHAINÉ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 399 focus
dans l'étable familière !
gémissante : ses peuples gémissent sur la grandeur et l'antique prestige ravis à la divinité de Prométhée et de ses frères, et tous ceux qui
vivent sur le sol voisin
Prometheus Chained (OCR draft) Experimental (Prometheus Chained. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 399 focus
For thee I heave the heartfelt ſigh,
My boſom melting at thy woes;
For thee my teardiſtilling eye
In ſtreams of tender ſorrow flows:
For Jove's imperious ruthleſs ſoul,
410
That ſcorns the pow'r of mild controul,
Chaſtens with horrid tort'ring pain
Not known to gods, before his iron reign.
E'en yet this ample region o'er
Hoarſe ſtrains of ſullen woe reſound,, o
415
Thy ſtate, thy brother's ſtate deplore
Agehonour'd glories ruin'd round,
Thy woes, beneath the ſacred ſhade. p
Of Afia's paſtur'd foreſts laid,
The chaſte inhabitant bewails
420
Thy groans reechoing thro' his plaintive vales
Eschilo, Prometeo legato: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Prometeo legato: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 399 focus
Per te gemo, Promèteo,
pel tuo destino acerbo.
Da la palpebra molle
460
versando un rivo di stillanti lagrime,
le mie gote bagnai d'umide polle.
Ché il suo poter superbo
con l'arbitrio di sí miseri scempi
ostenta Giove ai Numi che l'imperio
465
ebbero ai prischi tempi.
Tutta la terra un ululo
alza per te di duolo.
La tua magnificenza
piangon quanti han dimora ai lidi d'Espero,
470
e il prisco onor di te, di tua semenza.
E quante il sacro suolo
abitano de l'Asia umane genti,
delle torture tue senton, Promèteo,
pietà, dei tuoi lamenti.
475
Aeschylus, Prometheus vinctus: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Prometheus vinctus: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 399 focus
Lugeo infœlicem tuam fortunam Prometheu,
Lacrymosum ab oculis
405
Delicatis distillans fluentum, genas
Humidis tinxi fontibus. Immensa enim
Haec Iupiter legibus proprijs firmans,
Superbam prius dijs ostendit
Potentiam: omnis iam lugubrè
410
Resonuit regio, egregium
Et imperio dignum lugent tuum & consanguineorum
Honorem, quicunq; incolam
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.) — 399 focus
For the woe and the wreck and the doom, Prometheus, I utter my sighs;
445
O'er my cheek flows the fountain of tears from tender, compassionate eyes.
For stern and abhorred is the sway of Zeus on his self-sought throne,
And ruthless the spear of his scorn, to the gods of the days that are done.
And over the limitless earth goes up a disconsolate cry:
Ye were all so fair, and have fallen; so great, and your might has gone by!
450
So wails with a mighty lament the voice of the mortals, who dwell
In the Eastland, the home of the holy, for thee and the fate that befel;
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.) — 399 focus
Ich klag'um de in schmerzliches Jammergeschick, Prometheus,
Und ein Strom träufelnder Zähren
Aus dem zarten Auge nekt mir
400
Mit dem feuchten Quell die Wange.
Unerträglich schaltet Zeus hier
Nach Gesezen eigner Willkühr,
Und den alten Göttern zeigt er
Uebergewaltig seinen Heerstab.
405
Erste Gegenstrophe.
Schon hallt es wehklagend umher in den Landen allen
Um den Ruhm deines Geschlechtes,
Um den deinen, der so groß ward
In der Welten langem Alter.
Ja so viel' im nahen Asien
410
In den heil'gen Fluren wohnen,
Ja sie all', um dein entseßlich 1
Jammergeschick wehklagen alle.
Zweite Strophe.

Notes on the current edition

Prometheus Bound

1. Two-source OCR draft: unmatched words are bracketed; readings, punctuation, possible marginalia and note boundaries remain unverified. Agreement between OCR sources is not proof of correctness.
2. Reference placement provisional: local window supported by running Greek. Source note 414; verify numbering and scope.

Commentary

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

414. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-466

θνητοί:
θνατοί
Μ. G. Ceteri
θνητοί
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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

397-435. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-wecklein-allen1893-com-eng1-283

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397-435. First Stasimon. The ionic rhythms accord with the sor- rowful burden of the song, which calls to mind the words of Fr. v. Schlegel, 'Es geht ein allgemeines Weinen, so weit die stillen Sterne scheinen, durch alle Adern der Natur.'

414. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-wecklein-allen1893-com-eng1-292

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414. συγκάμνουσι : not = σὺν ἡμῖν κάμνουσι (Schol.), but like συνασχαλᾶν above (161, 243), συμπονεῖν (274). Cp. Eur. Alc. 614 ἥκω κακοῖσι σοῖσι συγκάμνων, τέκνον.
δάιος στρατός, ὀξυπρώτας.