Prometheus Bound

Aeschylus

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

  1. What gain have I then in life? Why did I not hurl myself straightaway from this rugged rock, so that I was dashed to earth and freed from
  2. all my sufferings? It is better to die once and for all than linger out all my days in misery.
Prometheus
  1. Ah, you would hardly bear my agonies to whom it is not foredoomed to die; for death would have freed me from my sufferings.