"Zeus, whoever he may be,--if by this name it pleases him to be invoked, by this name I call to him--as I weigh all things in the balance, I have nothing to compare save “Zeus,” if in truth I must cast aside this vain burden from my heart."
— Aeschylus (c. 525/524 BC-c. 456/455)
Work Title
Date
c. 458 BC
Metaphor
"Zeus, whoever he may be,--if by this name it pleases him to be invoked, by this name I call to him--as I weigh all things in the balance, I have nothing to compare save “Zeus,” if in truth I must cast aside this vain burden from my heart."
Metaphor in Context
Chorus
[160] Zeus, whoever he may be,--if by this name it pleases him to be invoked, by this name I call to him--as I weigh all things in the balance, I have nothing to compare [165] save “Zeus,” if in truth I must cast aside this vain burden from my heart.
[Χορός
Ζεύς, ὅστις ποτ᾽ ἐστίν, εἰ τόδ᾽ αὐ- 160
τῷ φίλον κεκλημένῳ,
τοῦτό νιν προσεννέπω.
οὐκ ἔχω προσεικάσαι
πάντ᾽ ἐπισταθμώμενος
πλὴν Διός, εἰ τὸ μάταν ἀπὸ φροντίδος ἄχθος 165
χρὴ βαλεῖν ἐτητύμως.]
[160] Zeus, whoever he may be,--if by this name it pleases him to be invoked, by this name I call to him--as I weigh all things in the balance, I have nothing to compare [165] save “Zeus,” if in truth I must cast aside this vain burden from my heart.
[Χορός
Ζεύς, ὅστις ποτ᾽ ἐστίν, εἰ τόδ᾽ αὐ- 160
τῷ φίλον κεκλημένῳ,
τοῦτό νιν προσεννέπω.
οὐκ ἔχω προσεικάσαι
πάντ᾽ ἐπισταθμώμενος
πλὴν Διός, εἰ τὸ μάταν ἀπὸ φροντίδος ἄχθος 165
χρὴ βαλεῖν ἐτητύμως.]
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
Text from Herbert Weir Smyth's edition at Perseus.
Reading Richmond Lattimore's translation, Aeschylus I: Oresteia (University of Chicago Press, 1953).
Reading Richmond Lattimore's translation, Aeschylus I: Oresteia (University of Chicago Press, 1953).
Date of Entry
06/22/2014
