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

    Promêtheus

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D.) | English (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D.)
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    Choros
    peponthas aikes pêm': aposphaleis phrenôn
    planai, kakos d' iatros hôs tis es noson
    pesôn athumeis kai seauton ouk echeis
    475
    heurein hopoiois pharmakois iasimos.
    Promêtheus
    ta loipa mou kluousa thaumasêi pleon,
    hoias technas te kai porous emêsamên.
    to men megiston, ei tis es noson pesoi,
    ouk ên alexêm' ouden, oute brôsimon,
    480
    ou christon, oude piston, alla pharmakôn
    chreiai kateskellonto, prin g' egô sphisin
    edeixa kraseis êpiôn akesmatôn,
    hais tas hapasas examunontai nosous.
    tropous te pollous mantikês estoichisa,
    485
    kakrina prôtos ex oneiratôn ha chrê
    hupar genesthai, klêdonas te duskritous+
    egnôris' autois enodious te sumbolous:
    gampsônuchôn te ptêsin oiônôn skethrôs
    diôris', hoitines te dexioi phusin
    490
    euônumous te, kai diaitan hêntina
    echous' hekastoi, kai pros allêlous tines
    echthrai te kai stergêthra+ kai sunedriai:
    splanchnôn te leiotêta, kai chroian tina
    echous' an eiê daimosin pros hêdonên
    495
    cholê, lobou+ te poikilên+ eumorphian+.
    knisêi te kôla sunkalupta kai makran
    osphun purôsas dustekmarton es technên
    hôdôsa thnêtous, kai phlogôpa sêmata
    exômmatôsa, prosthen ont' epargema.
    500
    toiauta+ men dê taut': enerthe de chthonos
    kekrummen', anthrôpoisin ôphelêmata,
    chalkon, sidêron, arguron, chruson te tis
    phêseien an paroithen exeurein emou;
    oudeis, saph' oida, mê matên phlusai thelôn.
    505
    brachei de muthôi panta sullêbdên mathe,
    pasai technai+ brotoisin+ ek Promêtheôs+.

    There are a total of 21 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges:
    2948 [oute (mête)]

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    503 [Konfirmatives men. — men dê. — mentoi. — men oun).]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone:
    * [988-1114]
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    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes:
    * [219-675]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Trachiniae:
    * [141-496]

    Cross references from W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886):
    2, 182 [Book 2 (b)]
    3, 456 [Book 3 (g)]

    Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb:
    633 [prin with the Indicative.]

    Cross references from Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek:
    649 [Attributive pas, etc. ]

    Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Selections from the Attic Orators:
    Isaeus, 5, 43 [Peri tou Dikaiogenous klêrou]

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    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
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