ABSTRACT
One sung of thee who left the tale untold- Like the false dawns which perish in the bursting. The lines are not safely datable by their miscellaneous surroundings, but they occur near the beginning of an nbk in a skeleton framework for stanzas numbered, with appropriate spaces allotted. Herodotus cannot be said to have 'sung' of Asia or anyone else, however; and a possibility is that the reference is to Aeschylus's partly-lost Prometheus trilogy, which S., for all his admiration, desired to revise, being 'averse from a catastrophe as feeble as that of reconciling the Champion with the Oppressor of mankind'. A mountain in 'Indian Scythia' must be on the northeastern edge of the Hindu Kush, the locale S adopted two months later for PU, the epigraph to which ironically proclaims his own apostasy from the orthodoxy of Aeschylus's submissive solution to the Zeus/Prometheus contest.
