Prometheus
A son of Iapetus and Clymene, one of the Oceanides. He ridiculed the gods and deceived Jupiter himself, who, to punish him and the rest of mankind, took fire away from the earth; but Prometheus climbed the heavens by the assistance of Minerva, and stole fire from the chariot of the sun, which he brought down to the earth. This provoked Jupiter, and he ordered Prometheus to be chained to a rock, where a vulture was to feed on his liver, which was never exhausted. He was delivered from his torture by Hercules, who killed the vulture.
Propertius, Sextus Aurelius. A Latin poet born in Umbria. He came to Rome, where his genius greatly recommended him to the great and powerful. His works consist of four books of elegies, which are marked by much ability. He died about nineteen years before Christ.
Propontis (Sea of Marmora). So called from its position with reference to the Pontus (Euxinus), being "before the Pontus," is the small sea uniting the Euxine and the Aegean, and dividing Europe (Thracia) from Asia (Mysia and Bithynia).