Profound Doctor (The), Thomas Bradwardine, a schoolman. Also called “The Solid Docter” (*-1349).
Ægidius de Columna, a Sicilian schoolman, was called “The Most Profound Doctor” (*-1316).
Progne (2 syl.), daughter of Pandīon, and sister of Philomēla. Prognê was changed into a swallow, and Philomela into a nightingale.—Greek Mythology.
As Prognê or as Philomela mourns ...
So Bradamant laments her absent knight.
Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, xxiii. (1516).
Prome´thean Unguent (The), made from the extract of a herb on which some of the blood of Promētheus (3 syl.), had fallen. Medea gave Jason some of this unguent, which rendered his body proof against fire and warlike instruments.
Prome´theus (3 syl.) taught man the use of fire, and instructed him in architecture, astronomy, mathematics, writing, rearing cattle, navigation, medicine, the art of prophecy, working metal, and, indeed, every art known to man. The word means “forethought,” and forethought is the father of invention. The tale is that he made man of clay, and, in order to endow his clay with life, stole fire from heaven and brought it to earth in a hollow tube. Zeus, in punishment, chained him to a rock, and sent an eagle to consume his liver daily; during the night it grew again, and thus his torment was ceaseless, till Herculês shot the eagle, and unchained the captive.
Learn the while, in brief,
That all arts come to mortals from Prometheus.
E. B. Browning, Prometheus Bound (1850).
Truth shall restore the light by Nature given,
And, like Prometheus, bring the fire from heaven.
Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, i. (1700).
*** Percy B. Shelley has a classical drama entitled Prometheus Unbound (1819).
James Russell Lowell has a noble poem entitled Prometheus, beginning,—