Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 1.11.1 · 1.11.1
Clinging together on the ship
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Ἔτι λέγοντα ἐξιόντα ἐπέσχε τὰ δάκρυα· καὶ οἱ μὲν ἀπῄεσαν εἰς τὴν πόλιν, τοῦ πλήθους αὐτοὺς θαρρεῖν παρακαλοῦντος, ὁ δὲ Ἁβροκόμης καὶ ἡ Ἄνθεια ἀλλήλοις περιφύντες ἔκειντο πολλὰ ἅμα ἐννοοῦντες, τοὺς πατέρας οἰκτείροντες, τῆς πατρίδος ἐπιθυμοῦντες, τὸν χρησμὸν δεδοικότες, τὴν ἀποδημίαν ὑποπτεύοντες· παρεμυθεῖτο δʼ αὐτοὺς εἰς ἅπαντα ὁ μετ’ ἀλλήλων πλοῦς.
He was still speaking when his tears welled up and stopped him. The parents went back to the city, with the crowd urging them to take heart, while Habrocomes and Anthia lay clinging to each other, thinking of many things at once: they pitied their parents, longed for their homeland, dreaded the oracle and were uneasy about the journey abroad. But their voyage together consoled them for everything.
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The setting
Book 1, chapter 11. The ship has just left Ephesus, and Anthia's father Megamedes has been praying aloud for the young couple from the shore.
A note on this passage
When a mind is crowded, this narrator says it held many things ἅμα, "at once," and gives them as a list with no "and" in it. The parents on the shore got one (1.10.7), and here the lovers get theirs. In Book 3, on the day set for a marriage she cannot escape, Anthia again "thought of many things at once," and her list includes "the oaths" that the two of them swear later in this chapter (3.5.2).
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