Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 1.1.2 · 1.1.2
He grows more beautiful every day
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Οὗτος ὁ Ἁβροκόμης ἀεὶ μὲν καὶ καθʼ ἡμέραν εἰς κάλλος ηὔξετο, συνήνθει δὲ αὐτῷ τοῖς τοῦ σώματος καλοῖς καὶ τὰ τῆς ψυχῆς ἀγαθά· παιδείαν τε γὰρ πᾶσαν ἐμελέτα καὶ μουσικὴν ποικίλην ἤσκει, θήρα δὲ αὐτῷ καὶ ἱππασία καὶ ὁπλομαχία συνήθη γυμνάσματα.
This Habrocomes grew more beautiful every day, and along with the beauty of his body the good things of the soul came into flower in him too. He studied every kind of learning and trained in music of all kinds, and hunting, riding and fighting in armor were his usual exercises.
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The setting
Book 1, chapter 1. The education of a rich young Greek of the city.
A note on this passage
συνήνθει, "bloomed together," is a flower word, and it sets up the heroine: Anthia's name sounds like ἄνθος, "flower," and when she first appears the narrator says her body ἤνθει, "was in bloom" (1.2.5). The list of studies is the schooling of a well-off young citizen: letters, music, and the training that made him fit to hunt and to fight.
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