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[978-1000] Prometheus Bound 155<br />

PROME<strong>THE</strong>US<br />

If hatred of foes is madness, I am mad.<br />

HERMES<br />

Who could endure you in prosperity!<br />

Alas, prosperity!<br />

PROME<strong>THE</strong>US<br />

HERMES<br />

Zeus has not learned that cry, alas.<br />

PROME<strong>THE</strong>US<br />

Time, growing ever older, teaches all things.<br />

HERMES<br />

It has not taught you wisdom yet.<br />

PROME<strong>THE</strong>US<br />

Else I should hardly talk with you, a slave.<br />

HERMES<br />

It seems you will not answer the father's demands.<br />

PROME<strong>THE</strong>US<br />

My debt of gratitude I fain would pay.<br />

HERMES<br />

You have reviled and scorned me as a child.<br />

PROME<strong>THE</strong>US (in supreme anger)<br />

And are you not simpler than a child if you hope to learn aught from<br />

me? There is no torment or contrivance in the power of Zeus to wring<br />

this utterance from me, except these bonds are loosened. Therefore let<br />

him hurl upon me the red levin, let him confound the reeling world with<br />

tempest of white-feathered snow and subterranean thunders; none of<br />

these things shall extort from me the knowledge that may ward off his<br />

overthrow.<br />

HERMES<br />

Consider if you shall profit by this.<br />

PROME<strong>THE</strong>US<br />

I have considered long since and formed my plan.<br />

HERMES<br />

Yet subdue thyself in time, rash fool, to regard thy present ills in wisdom-<br />

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