Prometheus having, by his attention to the wants of men,
provoked the anger of Jove, is bound down in a cleft of a
rock in a distant desert of Scythia. Here he not only
relates the wanderings, but foretells the future lot of
Io, and likewise alludes to the fall of Jove's dynasty.
Disdaining to explain his meaning to Mercury, he is swept
into the abyss amid terrific hurricane and earthquake.