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

    Choros

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D.) | English (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D.)
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    Promêtheus
    prôi ge stenazeis kai phobou plea tis ei:
    episches est' an kai ta loipa prosmathêis.
    Choros
    leg', ekdidaske: tois nosousi toi gluku
    to loipon algos prouxepistasthai torôs.
    Promêtheus
    700
    tên prin ge chreian ênusasth' emou para
    kouphôs: mathein gar têsde prôt' echrêizete
    ton amph' heautês athlon exêgoumenês:
    ta loipa nun akousath', hoia chrê pathê
    tlênai pros Hêras tênde tên neanida.
    705
    su t' Inacheion sperma, tous emous+ logous+
    thumôi+ bal'+, hôs an termat'+ ekmathêis+ hodou+.

    prôton men enthend' hêliou pros antolas
    strepsasa sautên steich' anêrotous guas:
    Skuthas d' aphixêi nomadas, hoi plektas stegas
    710
    pedarsioi+ naious' ep' eukuklois ochois
    hekêbolois toxoisin exêrtumenoi:
    hois mê pelazein++, all' halistonois podas
    chrimptousa rhachiaisin ekperan chthona.
    laias+ de cheiros+ hoi sidêrotektones
    715
    oikousi+ Chalubes, hous phulaxasthai se chrê.
    anêmeroi gar oude prosplatoi xenois.
    hêxeis d' Hubristên potamon ou pseudônumon,
    hon mê perasêis, ou gar eubatos peran,
    prin an pros auton Kaukason molêis, orôn
    720
    hupsiston, entha potamos ekphusai menos
    krotaphôn ap' autôn+. astrogeitonas de chrê
    koruphas huperballousan es mesêmbrinên
    bênai keleuthon, enth', Amazonôn straton
    hêxeis stuganor', hai Themiskuran pote
    725
    katoikiousin amphi Thermôdonth', hina
    tracheia+ pontou+ Salmudêssia+ gnathos+
    echthroxenos+ nautaisi+, mêtruia+ neôn+:
    hautai s' hodêgêsousi kai mal' asmenôs.
    isthmon d' ep' autais stenoporois limnês pulais
    730
    Kimmerikon hêxeis, hon thrasusplanchnôs se chrê
    lipousan aulôn' ekperan Maiôtikon:
    estai de thnêtois eisaei logos megas
    tês sês poreias, Bosporos d' epônumos
    keklêsetai. lipousa d' Eurôpês pedon
    735
    êpeiron hêxeis Asiad':. ar', humin dokei
    ho tôn theôn turannos es ta panth' homôs
    biaios einai; têide gar thnêtêi theos
    chrêizôn migênai tasd' eperripsen planas.
    pikrou d' ekursas, ô korê, tôn sôn gamôn
    740
    mnêstêros. hous gar nun akêkoas logous,
    einai dokei soi mêdepô 'n prooimiois.

    There are a total of 24 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 2:
    8, 330 [LIBER OCTAVUS.]
    11, 659 [LIBER UNDECIMUS.]

    Cross references from Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges:
    2013 [F. Infinitive in Commands, Wishes, and Exclamations]

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Friedrich Blass, Ausführliche Grammatik der Griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    114 [Die attische zweite Deklination.]
    54 [E. Elisio inversa oder Aphäresis.]

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    417 [Fortsetzung.]
    419 [Freierer Gebrauch des Genetivs.]

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    589 [Von den Satzfragen.]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Ajax:
    *

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

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Trachiniae:
    * [531-632]
    * [94-140]

    Cross references from W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus:
    4, 46, 3 [BOOK IV]

    Cross references from Reginald Walter Macan, Herodotus: The Seventh, Eighth, & Ninth Books with Introduction and Commentary:
    7, 128: aulôn Maiôtikos

    Cross references from W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886):
    6, 259 [Book 6 (z)]
    1, 318 [Book 1 (a)]

    Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb:
    617 [Temporal Particles signifying Until and Before.: heôs, ophra, eis ho or eisoke, este, achri, mechri, until.]

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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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