<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text><body><div type="translation" n="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg020.perseus-eng2" xml:lang="eng"><div type="textpart" xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg020.perseus-eng2" subtype="section" n="21"><sp><speaker>PROMETHEUS</speaker><p>Never fear, I shall feast with you, and Zeus will set me free in return for a considerable favour. </p></sp><sp><speaker>HERMES</speaker><p>What favour? Don’t hesitate to tell us. </p></sp><sp><speaker>PROMETHEUS</speaker><p>You know Thetis, Hermes?—but I must not tell. It is best to keep the secret, so that I may be rewarded and set free instead of being sentenced.<note xml:lang="eng" n="v.2.p.265.n.2">The secret is told in Dialogues of the Gods, 5.</note></p></sp><sp><speaker>HERMES</speaker><p>Why, keep it, Titan, if it is best that way. Let’s be going, Hephaestus, for here is the eagle close by. (To Prometheus.) Well, hold out stubbornly. I hope the Theban archer you speak of, will soon disclose himself to you, to stop you from being dissected by the bird.</p></sp></div></div></body></text></TEI>