Classical Museum, No. XV. p 1.
Buck. (Introduction, p. xiii.) has very aptly compared here the position of Antigone, in the well-known play of that name, and the half-approving, half-condemning tone of the Chorus in that play.
The most remarkable passages of the ancients where reference is made to the Prometheus Unbound of Æschylus are:—Cicero, Tusc. II. 10; Arrian. Periplus Pont. Eux. p. 19; Strabo, Lib. I. p. 33 and IV. 182-3; Plutarchus. vit. Pompeii, init.; Athenæus. XV. p. 672, Cas.
“Veniat Æschylus non poeta solum, sed etiam Pythagoreus. Sic enim accepimus. Quo modo fert apud eum Prometheus dolorem, quern excipit ob furtum Lemnium.”—Tusc. Quæst. II. 10, Welcker; Trilogie, p. 7.
“Chorus consilietur amicis.”—Horace.