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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.) — 574-608 focus
Προμηθεὺς δεσμώτης Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 574-608 focus
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 575 focus
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 575 focus
ὑπὸ δὲ κηρόπλαστος ὀτοβεῖ δόναξ ἀχέτας
ὑπνοδόταν νόμον.
ἰὼ ἰὼ πόποι, ποῖ μ᾽ ἄγουσιν
τηλέπλανοι πλάναι;
575
τί ποτέ μ', ὦ Κρόνιε παῖ, τί ποτε ταῖςδ'
ἐνέζευξας εὑρὼν ἁμαρτοῦσαν ἐν
πημοσύναις; ἔ ἔ.
οἰστρηλάτῳ δὲ δείματι δειλαίαν
παράκοπον ὧδε τείρεις;
580
πυρί με φλέξον, ἢ χθονὶ κάλυψον, ἢ ποντίοις
δάκεσι δὸς βοράν,
μηδέ μοι φθονήσῃς
εὐγμάτων, ἄναξ.
ἄδην με πολύπλανοι πλάναι
585
γεγυμνάκασιν, οὐδ᾽ ἔχω μαθεῖν ὅπῃ
πημονὰς ἀλύξω.
κλύεις φθέγμα τᾶς βουκέρω παρθένου;
ΠΡΟΜΗθΕΥΣ ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΡΟΜΗθΕΥΣ ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 575 focus
Ὑπὸ δὲ κηρόπλαστος ὀτοβεῖ δόναξ
575
Str.
ἀχέτας ὑπνοδόταν νόμον·
ἰὼ ἰὼ πόποι,
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ποῖ μ' ἄγουσ' <αἵδε> τη-
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λέπλαγκτοι πλάναι ;
Τί ποτέ μ', ὦ Κρόνιε παῖ, τί ποτε ταῖσδ'
580
ἐνέζευξας εὑρὼν ἁμαρτοῦ-
σαν ἐν πημοναῖσιν, ἐή,
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οἰστρηλάτῳ δὲ δείματι
δειλαίαν παράκοπον ὧδε τείρεις ;
Πυρί <με> φλέξον ἢ χθονὶ κάλυψον ἢ
585
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ποντίοις δάκεσι δὸς βοράν,
μηδέ μοι φθονήσῃς
εὐγμάτων, ἄναξ.
Ἄδην γε πολύπλανοι πλάναι
γεγυμνάκασιν, οὐδ' ἔχω μαθεῖν ὅπῃ
590
πημονὰς ἀλύξω.
Κλύεις φθέγμα τᾶς
βουκέρω παρθένου ;
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 575 focus
πῶς δ᾽ οὐ κλύω τῆς οἰστροδινήτου κόρης
τῆς Ἰναχείας; ἣ Διὸς θάλπει κέαρ
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ἔρωτι, καὶ νῦν τοὺς ὑπερμήκεις δρόμους
Ἥρᾳ στυγητὸς πρὸς βίαν γυμνάζεται.
Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 575 focus
ὑπὸ δὲ κηρόπλαστος ὀτοβεῖ δόναξ
575
ἀχέτας ὑπνοδόταν νόμον·
ἰὼ ἰὼ πόποι, ποῖ μ᾿ ἄγουσι τη-
λέπλαγκτοι πλάναι;
τί ποτέ μ᾽ ὦ Κρόνιε παῖ, τί ποτε ταῖσδ᾽
ἐνέζευξας εὑρὼν ἁμαρτοῦσαν ἐν πημοναῖσιν;
580
οἰστρηλάτωι δὲ δείματι
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.)) — 575-605 focus
Prometheus Bound. (OCR draft) Experimental (Prometheus Bound.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 575 focus
while the sounding wax-compacted pipe drones on a sleepy strain. Oh! oh! ye powers! Oh! powers! whither do my far-roaming wanderings convey me? In what, in what, O son of Saturn, hast thou, having found me transgressing, shackled me in these pangs? Ah! ah! and art thus wearing out a timorous wretch phrensied with sting-driven fear. Burn me with fire, or bury me in earth, or give me for food to the monsters of the deep, and grudge me not these prayers, O king! Amply have my much-traversed wanderings harassed me; nor can I discover how I may avoid pain. Hearest thou the address of the ox-horned maiden?
How can I fail to hear the damsel that is phrenzy-driven by the hornet, the daughter of Inachus, who warms the heart of Jupiter with love, and now, abhorred of Juno, is driven perforce courses of exceeding length?
PROMÉTHÉE ENCHAINÉ (OCR draft) Experimental (PROMÉTHÉE ENCHAINÉ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 575 focus
Et sur mes pas le roseau sonore à la gaine de cire fait
entendre son assoupissante chanson 1 . Hélas ! hélas ! où m'entraînent de si lointaines erreurs ? Quelle est, quelle est donc la faute que tu as surprise, pour m'avoir, ô fils de Cronos, attelée à de tels maux — hélas ! — et pour exténuer ainsi
une pauvre folle dans une épouvante qui la pourchasse comme un taon 2 ? Brûle-moi de ta flamme, cache-moi sous la terre, donne-moi en pâture aux monstres de la mer ; ne me refuse pas, Seigneur, ce que de toi j'implore ! De trop
longues erreurs m'ont suffisamment brisée, et je ne sais où apprendre comment échapper à mes maux. Prêtes-tu l'oreille aux accents de la vierge à cornes de vache ?
le nom que tu prononces, le nom de mon père ? Réponds à l'infortunée : qui donc es-tu,
misérable, pour saluer la misérable en termes si vrais, pour donner son nom au mal issu
Prometheus Chained (OCR draft) Experimental (Prometheus Chained. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 575 focus
Hoarſe ſounds the reedcompacted pipe u
, a note
Sullen and drowsy.
-Miſerable me!
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Whither will these widewand'ring errors lead me?
How, ſon of Saturn, how have I offended,
That with these ſtings, these tortures thou purſueſt me,
And driveſt to madness my affrighted ſoul!
Hear me, ſupreme of gods, O hear thy ſuppliant,
590
Blaſt me with lightnings, bury me in the earth,
Or caſt me to the monſters of the ſea;
But ſpare these toils, ſpare these widewand'ring errors,
Which drive me round the world, and know no reſt.
Hear'ſt thou the voice of this lamenting virgin?
595
For ſuch ſhe is, tho' in that form diſguisd.
Eschilo, Prometeo legato: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Prometeo legato: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 575 focus
una melode che sonno infonde.
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Ahimè, ahimè! Misera me!
Dove m'adduce questo lungivago
errore? Dimmi, figlio di Crono,
di quale colpa rea mi trovasti,
che, al giogo astretta di questi crucci,
680
ahimè, ahi!
me sciagurata, priva di senno,
con lo sgomento strazi dell'estro?
Col fuoco bruciami, fa ch'io di terra
sia ricoperta, del mare ai mostri
685
dammi in pastura, sordo non essere,
questi miei voti, signore, adempi.
Troppo provata m'hanno i lungivaghi
errori, e come sfugga mie pene
non m'è concesso saper!
690
Si volge, un po' calmata, a Prometeo.
La voce
della cornigera fanciulla ascolti ?
Io non udire la figliuola d'Inaco
punta dall'estro? Ella d'amore avvampa
il cuor di Giove: e adesso, in odio ad Era,
695
per infinito corso a forza è spinta.
Aeschylus, Prometheus vinctus: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Prometheus vinctus: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 575 focus
Quà me ducunt longi errores?
Quid tandem Iupiter, quid tandem,
Quid tandem iunxisti, inveniens
Peccantem in nocumentis? heu heu,
Furibundo terriculo miseram
575
Insanàm sic venaris?
Igni combure me, aut terra occulta, aut
Marinis monstris da cibum: neq; mihi invideas
Gloriæ rex,
Satis me vagi errores
580
Exercuerunt: neq; possum intelligere, quo pacto
Mala fugiam.
Audis clamorem cornubovis puellæ
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.) — 575 focus
And ah, the ghostly sound—
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The wax-stopped reed-flute's weird and drowsy drone!
Alack my wandering woes, that round and round
Lead me in many mazes, lost, foredone!
O child of Cronos! for what deed of wrong
Am I enthralled by thee in penance long?
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Why by the stinging brize, the thing of fear,
Dost thou torment me, heart and brain?
Nay, give me rather to the flames that sear,
Or to some hidden grave,
Or to the rending jaws, the monsters of the main!
630
Nor grudge the boon for which I crave, O king!
Enough, enough of weary wandering,
Pangs from which none can save!
Hearken! in pity hold
Io, the ox-horned maid, thy love of old!
635
Hear Zeus or not, I hear and know thee well,
Daughter of Inachus; I know thee driven,
Stung by the gadfly, mazed with agony.
Ay, thou art she whose beauty fired the breast
Of Zeus with passion; she whom Hera's hate
640
Now harasses o'er leagues and leagues of land.
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.) — 575 focus
Das wachsgefügte stimmvolle Nohr tönt mir so liebliche
Schlafmelodieen zu.
Weh, weh! O Graun!
Wohin irrt mein Pfad, trägt in die Ferne mich hin? -
Ach warum, Kronos' Sohn? Welche Schuld
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Fandest du denn an mir,
Daß du mich kettetest an diese Qual,
Mit solcher wahnsinntrunkenen Angst mich Wahn-
sinnige also marterst?
Senge mit Flammen, birg tief in die Erde mich,
580
Oder im Meer gib mich dem Hai zum Raub!
Ach, versage diesen Wunsch mir nicht, o Herr!
Genug der Irren trieben mich
Abmattend fort in die Ferne, nimmer weiß ich, wo
Ich der Qual entrinne.
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Wie hört' ich nicht, die wilden Wahnsinns Stachel treibt,
Die Inachide, die Kronions Herz entflammt
In Lieb', und nun die endlos lange Bahn, verfolgt
Vom Hasse Hera's, ruhelos durchirren muß.
590

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 584; 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

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εὐγμάτων:
εὐγμάτων
litteris
άτ
a sec. manu in litura M.

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

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561-886. Third Episode. Io and Prometheus. The myth of Io is connected with that of Prometheus by the person of Heracles, the libera- tor of Prometheus, who is descended from paphus, the son of Zeus and Io (see on 774). The appearance of Io therefore prepares the way for the introduction of Heracles in the Προ- μηθεὺς λυόμενος. But the immediate significance of this scene consists in the present relation of Zeus and Io. Io appears as innocent and yet perse- cuted; her sufferings, superficially considered, put Zeus in the worst possible light. Accordingly the in- dignation of Prometheus rises more and more, till at last, carried away by passion, he vaunts his secret in such terms that the interposition of Zeus becomes inevitable. So the transition to the catastrophe is pre- pared. The geographical part of this episode, with its description of marvels, like the scene of Heracles in the Προμηθεὺς λυόμενος (see below, Frg. VII. and VIII.), doubtless had a peculiar charm for the Athenians of the period. On the origin of the myth of Io, see Introd. p. 9, footnote. Io appears as a horned maiden (588, 674; so indi- cated by her mask). In early Greek art, especially in vase-paintings, she has the figure of a cow outright. On the throne of the Amyclaean Apollo, a work of the sculptor Bathycles (about Ol. 60), Hera was represented as glaring at Io, 'who is already a cow' (Paus. iii. 18. 7). On an archaic black-figured vase of the Munich collection (No. 573; see Panofka, Argos Panoptes, plate 5), Argus is seen, seated on the ground, a fero- cious figure with long hair and beard, and a huge eye in his shaggy breast; he holds in his hand a long cord, attached to the horns of a cow. Near by stands Hermes, grasping the cord near the horns with his left hand, and about to draw his sword with his right. Argus's dog
stands at bay in front of his master. Through the influence of this trag- edy, Io came later to be depicted in art as a maiden with horns. So, for instance, on a red-figured vase of the Berlin Museum (Panofka, l.c., plate 3). The stinging gadfly' of the legend (cp. Suppl. 306 BΑ. τί οὖν ἔτευξεν ἄλλο δυσπότμῳ βοΐ; ΧΟ. βοη- λάτην μύωπα κινητήριον, Verg. Georg. iii. 147 cui nomen asilo Ro- manum est, oestrum Graii vertere vocantes), which is mentioned in Io's narrative, 675 be- low, had also to be omitted in the scenic representation. The difficulty was met by a figurative conception of οἶστρος; the maddening sting was interpreted as the reminiscence of the crafty eye of Argos (567). — On account of the unusual manner of Io's entrance and exit, the anapaests which commonly accompany the ar- rival and departure of a personage are here and at 877 given to the actor, not to the chorus. So above, at the entrance of the chorus (120 ff.).

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584. μοι φθονήσῃς εὐγμάτων: cp. 626, 859; Eur. H. F. 333 οὐ φθονῶ πέπλων, 1309 λέκτρων φθονοῦσα Ζηνί.