Never fear, I shall feast with you, and Zeus will
set me free in return for a considerable favour.
What favour? Don’t hesitate to tell us.
You know Thetis, Hermes ?—but I must not tell.
It is best to keep the secret, so that I may be
rewarded and set free instead of being sentenced.The secret is told in Dialogues of the Gods, 5.
Why, keep it, Titan, if it is best that way. Let’s
be going, Hephaestus, for here is the eagle close by.
(To Prometheus.) Well, hold out stubbornly. I
hope the Theban archer you speak of, will soon
disclose himself to you, to stop you from being
dissected by the bird.