Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 1.10.1 · 1.10.1
The morning after the wedding
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Ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἡμέρα ἐγένετο, ἀνίσταντο πολὺ μὲν ἡδίονες, πολὺ δὲ εὐθυμότεροι, ἀπολαύσαντες ὧν ἐπεθύμησαν χρόνῳ καλῶς.
When day came, they got up much happier and much more cheerful, having fully enjoyed what they had long desired.
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The setting
Book 1, chapter 10. Habrocomes and Anthia have spent their wedding night together.
A note on this passage
The morning looks back on the night with one participle, ἀπολαύσαντες, "having enjoyed," the verb of 1.9.9, where the two "enjoyed the first things of Aphrodite" (τὰ πρῶτα τῶν Ἀφροδίτης ἀπέλαυον). What they had "long desired" goes back to chapter 5, when both lay ill and could not tell anyone what was wrong (1.5.9).
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