Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 1.1.4 · 1.1.4
Nothing seems worthy of him
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Ἐφρόνει δὲ τὸ μειράκιον ἐφʼ ἑαυτῷ μέγα καὶ ἠγάλλετο μὲν καὶ τοῖς τῆς ψυχῆς κατορθώμασι, πολὺ δὲ μᾶλλον τῷ κάλλει τοῦ σώματος· πάντων δὲ τῶν ἄλλων, ὅσα δὴ ἐλέγετο καλά, ὡς ἐλαττόνων κατεφρόνει καὶ οὐδὲν αὐτῷ, οὐ θέαμα, οὐκ ἄκουσμα ἄξιον Ἁβροκόμου κατεφαίνετο·
The youth thought highly of himself. He took pride in the achievements of his soul, but much more in the beauty of his body. Everything else that people called beautiful he looked down on as inferior, and nothing, no sight and no sound, seemed to him worthy of Habrocomes.
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Book 1, chapter 1. How Habrocomes thinks of himself.
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The sentence ends on his own name: nothing seemed "worthy of Habrocomes." The narrator lets us hear how the boy speaks of himself, in the third person. The verb ἠγάλλετο, "he took pride," has a noun, ἄγαλμα, the word for a god's statue, which comes back two sections later.
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