Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 1.10.8 · 1.10.8
The ship casts off
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Ἤδη μὲν οὖν ἐθορύβουν οἱ ναῦται, καὶ ἐλύετο τὰ πρυμνήσια, καὶ ὁ κυβερνήτης τὴν αὑτοῦ χώραν κατελάμβανε, καὶ ἡ ναῦς ἀπεκινεῖτο.
And now the sailors were shouting, the stern cables were being cast off, the helmsman was taking his place, and the ship was moving off.
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Book 1, chapter 10. The ship leaves Ephesus with the young couple on board.
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πρυμνήσια are the stern cables, the ropes that tied a moored ship's stern to the shore. Homer tells a departure the same way and with the same verb, λύω, "loose": when Telemachus sails from Ithaca, τοὶ δὲ πρυμνήσιʼ ἔλυσαν, "and they loosed the stern cables" (Odyssey 2.418).
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