Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 1.10.9 · 1.10.9
Shouts between the shore and the ship
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Βοὴ δὲ τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς καὶ τῶν ἐν τῇ νηὶ πολλὴ ⟨καὶ⟩ συμμιγής, τῶν μὲν ὦ παῖδες λεγόντων φίλτατοι, ἆρα ἔτι ὑμᾶς οἱ φύντες ὀψόμεθα; τῶν δὲ ὦ πατέρες, ἆρα ὑμᾶς ἀποληψόμεθα; Δάκρυα δὴ καὶ οἰμωγή, καὶ ἕκαστος ὀνομαστὶ τὸν οἰκεῖον ἐκάλει, εἰς ὑπόμνησιν ἀλλήλοις ἐγκαταλείποντες τοὔνομα.
There was a great and mingled shouting from those on land and those on the ship. Some said, “Dearest children, will we, your parents, see you again?” and the others, “Parents, will we get you back?” There were tears and wailing, and each called his own by name, leaving the name with one another as a remembrance.
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The setting
Book 1, chapter 10. As the ship moves off, the families call to each other.
A note on this passage
ὑπόμνησις, "remembrance," answers the λήθη, "forgetting," of the feasting days (1.10.2). At the harbor Lycomedes and Themisto remember everything at once, ἐν ὑπομνήσει (1.10.7), and here each person calls out a name and leaves it with the other εἰς ὑπόμνησιν, "as a remembrance." On board, Habrocomes too, ἐν ὑπομνήσει τῶν ἑαυτοῦ γενόμενος, "remembering his own," asks Anthia to swear an oath with him (1.11.3–4).
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