[173] Of the tragedy called Προμηθεὺς Λυόμενος some few fragments yet remain: Προμηθεὺς Πύρφορος was a satyric drama, according to Dindorf. Welcker recognizes a third tragedy, Προμηθεὺς Πύρφορος, and a satyric drama, Προμηθεὺς Πυρκαεύς (Die Griechisch. Tragödien, vol. i. p. 30). The story of Promêtheus had also been handled by Sapphô in one of her lost songs (Servius ad Virgil. Eclog. vi. 42).
[174] Apollodôrus too mentions only the theft of fire (i. 7. 1).
[175] Æsch. Prom. 442-506.—
Πᾶσαι τέχναι βροτοῖσιν ἐκ Προμηθέως.
[176] Æsch. Prom. 231.—
βροτῶν δὲ τῶν ταλαιπώρων λόγον
Οὐκ ἔσχεν οὐδέν᾽, ἀλλ᾽ ἀϊστώσας γένος
Τὸ πᾶν, ἔχρῃζεν ἄλλο φιτῦσαι νέον.
[177] Æsch. Prom. 198-222. 123.—
διὰ τὴν λίαν φιλότητα βροτῶν.