N. Wecklein Prometheus Bound 423.comm-423

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.) — 407 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.
Κολχίδος τε γᾶς ἔνοικοι
415
παρθένοι, μάχας ἄτρεστοι,
καὶ Σκύθης ὅμιλος, οἳ γᾶς
ἔσχατον τόπον ἀμφὶ Μαιῶτιν ἔχουσι λίμναν,
Ἀραβίας τ᾽ ἄρειον ἄνθος,
420
ὑψίκρημνον οἳ πόλισμα
Καυκάσου πέλας νέμονται,
δάϊος στρατὸς, ὀξυπρῴροισι βρέμων ἐν αἰχμαῖς.
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 407 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'.
Κολχίδος τε γᾶς ἔνοικοι
415
παρθένοι, μάχαις ἄτρεστοι,
Σαρματᾶν τ' ἄρειον ἄνθος,
420
ὑψίκρημνον οἳ πόλισμα,
Καυκάσου πύλας, νέμονται,
δάϊος στρατός, ὀξυπρώ-
ροισι βρέμων ἐν αἰχμαῖς.
στρ. γ'.
ΠΡΟΜΗθΕΥΣ ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΡΟΜΗθΕΥΣ ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 407 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·
Κολχίδος τε γᾶς ἔνοικοι
415
Str. 2.
παρθένοι, μάχας ἄτρεστοι,
καὶ Σκύθης ὅμιλος, οἳ γᾶς
ἔσχατον τόπον ἀμφὶ Μαι-
Ἀραβίας τ' ἄρειον ἄνθος,
420
Ant. 2.
ὑψίκρημνον οἳ θ' οἳ πόλισμα
Καυκάσου πέλας νέμονται νέμουσι,
δάϊος στρατὸς ὀξυπρῴ-
ροισι βρέμων ἐν αἰχμαῖς.
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 407 focus
πρόπασα δ᾽ ἤδη στονόεν
λέλακε χώρα,
μεγαλοσχήμονά τ᾽ ἀρχαι-
Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 407 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· =
Κολχίδος τε γᾶς ἔνοικοι,
415
παρθένοι μάχας ἄτρεστοι,
καὶ Σκύθης ὅμιλος, οἳ γᾶς
ἔσχατον τόπον ἀμφὶ Μαι-
ῶτιν ἔχουσι λίμναν· –
Ἀραβίας τ᾽ Ἄρειον ἄνθος,
420
ὑψίκρημνον [θ᾽] οἳ πόλισμα
Καυκάσου πέλας νέμονται,
δάιος στρατὸς ὀξυπρώι-
ροισι βρέμων ἐν αἰχμαῖς. =
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.) — 407 focus
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:
the virgins that dwell in the land of Colchis too, fearless of the fight, and the Scythian horde who possess the most remote region of earth around lake Maeotis:
and the warlike flower of Arabia
, who occupy a fortress on the craggy heights in the neighbourhood of Caucasus, a warrior-host, clamouring amid sharply-barbed spears.
PROMÉTHÉE ENCHAINÉ (OCR draft) Experimental (PROMÉTHÉE ENCHAINÉ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 407 focus
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
de la sainte Asie 1 , devant ta gémissante angoisse, souffrent avec toi, tout mortels qu'ils sont ;
Bien marqué.

Et, avec eux, les vierges de Colchide, intrépides combattantes 2 ;
et les hordes de Scythie, qui occupent les confins du monde, autour du Méotis stagnant 3 ;
Prometheus Chained (OCR draft) Experimental (Prometheus Chained. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 407 focus
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
The Colchian virgin, whoſe bold hand
Undaunted graſps the warlike ſpear;
On earth's laſt verge the Scythian band,
The torpid lake Mæotis near;
425
Arabia's martial race, that wield
The ſharp lance in th' embattled field,
Thro' all their rockbuilt cities moan,
The crags of Caucaſus return the groan.
Eschilo, Prometeo legato: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Prometeo legato: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 407 focus
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
E della terra Colchide
le abitatrici vergini
non mai sazie di guerra;
e d'intorno al Meòtide
stagno le turbe scitiche,
480
ai confin' della terra;
e il prode fior d'Arabia,
la cui città sul Caucaso
surge, su vette estreme,
formidoloso esercito,
485
che, recinto da cuspidi
di lance aguzze, freme.
Aeschylus, Prometheus vinctus: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Prometheus vinctus: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 407 focus
Potentiam: omnis iam lugubrè
410
Resonuit regio, egregium
Et imperio dignum lugent tuum & consanguineorum
Honorem, quicunq; incolam
Et Colchidæ terræ incolæ virgines
Pugnæ intrepidæ, multitudoq; Scythica:
Qui etiam extremum terræ locum circum Mæotide
Paludem inhabitant, Arabiæq; martialis natio,
420
Et qui oppidum Caucafum altiiugum
Prope habitant, infestus exercitus
Resonans cum hastis acutis.
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.) — 407 focus
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;
And they of the Colchian land, the maidens whose arm is for war;
And the Scythian bowmen, who roam by the lake of Maeotis afar;
And the blossom of battling hordes, that flowers upon Caucasus' height,
455
With clashing of lances that pierce, and with clamour of swords that smite.
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.) — 407 focus
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.
Auch das Volk auf. Kolchis' Erde,
Mädchen ohne Furcht in Schlachten,
415
Auch die Skythen, deren Horde
Fern am äußersten Saum der Welt
Schwärmt um den See Mäotis;
Zweite Gegenstrophe.
Und Arabia's Heldenblüte,
Und, die steilgethürmte Burgen
420
Nah' am Kaukasos bewohnen,
Wilde Schaaren, im Kampfe mit
Spiziger Lanze tosend.
Schlußgesang.

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 423; 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

423. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-475

ὀξυπρώροισι:
ὀξυπόροισι
Lips. Aug.

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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2
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.'

423. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-wecklein-allen1893-com-eng1-298

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4
423. ὀξυπρῴροισι: cp. βούπρῳρος, ἀνδρόπρωρος. – βρέμων ἐν αἰχμαῖς: cp. Eur. Phoen. 113 πολλοῖς μὲν ἵπποις, μυρίοις δ᾽ ὅπλοις βρέμων. With ἐν αἰχμαῖς cp. Eur. Εl. 321 καὶ σκῆπτρ᾽ ἐν οἷς Ἕλλησιν ἐστρατηλάτει, Xen. Mem. iii. 9. 2 ἐν πέλταις καὶ ἀκοντίοις διαγω- νίζεσθαι.