Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 1.10.6 · 1.10.6
The whole city sees them off
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Ὡς δʼ ἦλθεν ἡ τῆς ἀναγωγῆς ἡμέρα, πολλοὶ μὲν οἰκέται, πολλαὶ δὲ θεράπαιναι *** μελλούσης δὲ τῆς νεὼς ἐπανάξεσθαι, πᾶν μὲν τὸ Ἐφεσίων ⟨πλῆθος⟩ παρῆν παραπέμπον, πολλαὶ δὲ καὶ τῶν *** μετὰ λαμπάδων καὶ θυσιῶν.
When the day of sailing came, there were many servants and many maids (words lost). As the ship was about to put out to sea, the whole crowd of the Ephesians was there to see them off, and many women too, of the (words lost), with torches and sacrifices.
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Book 1, chapter 10. The day of sailing; some words of this sentence are lost in the only manuscript.
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Three of the editor's marks fall in this sentence. After "many maids" some words are lost, which is why that clause has no verb. The manuscript reads "the whole … of the Ephesians" with no noun, and the editor supplies ⟨πλῆθος⟩, "crowd"; the send-off at Rhodes later in this book is told in the same words, παρέπεμπε δὲ αὐτοὺς ἅπαν τὸ Ῥοδίων πλῆθος, "the whole crowd of the Rhodians escorted them" (1.12.3). After τῶν, "of the," more words are lost. πολλαί is feminine, so the people who came "with torches and sacrifices" were women of some group whose name is gone.
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