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Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes

Note 65 — PROMETHEUS CHAINED.

Theodore Alois Buckley translation

This pun upon the name of Epaphus is preserved by Moschus II. 50.

ἐν δ᾽ ἦν Ζεὺς, ἐπαφώμενος ἠρέμα χειρὶ θεείῃ πόρτιος ᾽Ιναχίης. τὴν ἑπταπόρῳ παρὰ Νείλῳ ἐκ βοὸς εὐκεράοιο πάλιν μετάμειβε γυναῖκα.

and Nonnus, III. p. 62, 20:

ἔνθ᾽ Ἔπαφον διὶ τίκτεν ἀκηρασίων ὅτι κόλπων Ἰναχίης δαμάλης ἐπαφήσατο θεῖος ἀκοίτης χερσὶν ἐρωσανέεσσι—

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