Prometheus Bound

Aeschylus

Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.

  1. and may I not offend in speech; but may this rule abide in my heart and never fade away.
Chorus
  1. Sweet it is to pass all the length of life amid confident hopes, feeding the heart in glad festivities. But I shudder
  2. as I look on you, racked by infinite tortures. You have no fear of Zeus, Prometheus, but in self-will you reverence mortals too much.