Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D.)

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Kratos
Chthonos men es têlouron hêkomen pedon,
Skuthên es hoimon, abaton eis erêmian.
Hêphaiste, soi de chrê melein epistolas
has soi patêr epheito, tonde pros petrais

5

hupsêlokrêmnois ton leôrgon ochmasai
adamantinôn⁺ desmôn⁺ en arrêktois pedais⁺.
to son gar anthos, pantechnou puros selas,
thnêtoisi klepsas ôpasen. toiasde toi
hamartias sphe dei theois dounai dikên,

10

hôs an didachthêi tên Dios⁺ turannida
stergein, philanthrôpou⁺ de pauesthai tropou⁺.
Hêphaistos
Kratos Bia te, sphôin⁺ men entolê⁺ Dios
echei⁺ telos⁺ dê kouden empodôn eti:
egô d' atolmos eimi sungenê theon

15

dêsai biai pharangi pros duscheimerôi.
pantôs d' anankê tônde moi tolman schethein:
exôriazein gar patros logous baru.

tês orthoboulou Themidos aipumêta pai,
akonta s' akôn duslutois chalkeumasi

20

prospassaleusô tôid' apanthrôpôi pagôi
hin' oute phônên oute tou morphên brotôn
opsei⁺, statheutos d' hêliou phoibêi phlogi
chroias ameipseis anthos. asmenôi de soi
hê poikileimôn nux apokrupsei phaos⁺,

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pachnên th' heôian hêlios skedai palin:
aei de tou parontos achthêdôn kakou⁺
trusei s': ho lôphêsôn gar ou pephuke pô⁺.

toiaut'⁺ epêurô tou philanthrôpou tropou.
theos theôn gar ouch hupoptêssôn cholon

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brotoisi timas ôpasas pera dikês.
anth' hôn aterpê tênde phrourêseis petran⁺
orthostadên, aupnos, ou kamptôn gonu:
pollous d' odurmous kai goous anôpheleis
phthenxêi: Dios gar dusparaitêtoi phrenes.

35

hapas de trachus hostis an neon kratêi.

Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus:
640: apo-krupsei apo-tropê

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Friedrich Blass, Ausführliche Grammatik der Griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
130 [Anomala der dritten Deklination, d. h. diejenigen Substantive, deren Flexion von den oben angegebenen Regeln abweicht.]

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
465 [Gebrauch des Artikels bei Pronomen und Zahlwörtern mit und ohne Substantiv.]
409 [a) Akkusativ bei transitiven Verben, sowie bei transitiv gebrauchten Intransitiven.]
417 [Fortsetzung.]
410 [b) Akkusativ bei intransitiven und passiven Verben und Adjektiven).]

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
553 [Adverbialsätze der Absicht, durch hina, oft auch hôs, hopôs, ophra (ep. u. lyr.), damit, [heôs ep.] (negativ hina mê, hôs mê u. s. w., auch bloss mê [lat. ne], damit nicht), eingeleitet).]
597 [II. Brachylogie).]
607 [Bemerkungen über besondere Eigentümlichkeiten in der Stellung.]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Ajax:
* [201-595]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Electra:
* [251-471]

Cross references from W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886):
9, 167 [Book 9 (i)]
18, 107 [Book 18 (s)]
7, 279 [Book 7 (ê)]

Cross references from Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900):
7, 197 [Book 7 (Ê)]

Cross references from Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek:
43, 621 [First Position:]
3, 2, 20 [Omission of ô.]
3, 2, 23 [Vocative prepositive:]
43, 610 [Examples of First Position:]

Cross references from Charles Simmons, The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books XIII and XIV:
14, 362

This text is based on the following book(s):
Aeschylus. Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes. 1.Prometheus. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1926.
OCLC: 13109528
ISBN: 0674991605

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