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Quotation from Prometheus Bound and Other Plays by Aeschylus
“He sought to shackle and control the Hellespontine wave”
Prometheus Bound and Other Plays, The Persians, the ghost's speech, trans. E. D. A. Morshead (1908)
Darius names Xerxes' bridge of boats as the presumption that drew divine punishment.
Citation: "He sought to shackle and control the Hellespontine wave" — Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound and Other Plays, The Persians, the ghost's speech, trans. E. D. A. Morshead (1908). (id aeschylus-prometheus-bound-and-other-plays-q2)
