Prométheus, The sonne of Iapetus, first inuented making of Images: wherefore the paynims supposed that hee made men, and feigned that hee went vy into heauen, and there did steale fire to make his. Image haue life, wherewith Iuplter being wroth, caused him to be bounden on the hill called Caucasus, & an Eagle stãding by him eating his heart: by the which is signified, that he was studious, and a greate Astronomer.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Prŏmētheus (trisyl.), ĕi and ĕos, m., =*promhqeu/s (the Forethinker), a son of Iapetus and Clymene, brother of Epimetheus, and father of Deucalion. He formed men of clay, and animated them by means of fire brought from heaven; for which he was fastened to Caucasus, where a vulture, or, as some say, an eagle, fed upon his entrails, until, at last, it was slain by Hercules, Cic. Tusc. 3, 31, 76; Auct. Her. 4, 6, 9; Hor. C. 1, 16, 13; Ov. M. 1, 82; Hyg. Fab. 54; 144; Verg. E. 6, 42; Prop. 3, 3, 29 (4, 4, 7); Mart. 11, 85, 9; Stat. Th. 11, 478; Lact. 2, 10, 5.—Poet., transf., of a skilful potter, Juv. 4, 133.—Hence, A. Prŏmēthēus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Prometheus, Promethean: juga, i. e.
the Caucasus
, Prop. 1, 12, 10; also called rupes, Mart. 9, 46, 3: fibra,
of Prometheus
, Val. Fl. 7, 356: creta, Col. poët. 10, 59: lutum, Mart. 10, 39, 4: cruor, Ov. Am. 2, 16, 40: manus, Stat. Th. 8, 305.— B. Prŏmēthĭădes, ae, m.patron., the son of Prometheus, Deucalion, Ov. M. 1, 390.