Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 1.13.1 · 1.13.1
Phoenician pirates at Rhodes
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Ἔτυχον μὲν ἐν Ῥόδῳ πειραταὶ παρορμοῦντες αὐτοῖς, Φοίνικες τὸ γένος, ἐν τριήρει μεγάλῃ· παρώρμουν δὲ ὡς φορτίον ἔχοντες καὶ πολλοὶ καὶ γεννικοί. Οὗτοι κατεμεμαθήκεσαν *** τῇ νηὶ ὅτι χρυσὸς καὶ ἄργυρος καὶ ἀνδράποδα πολλὰ καὶ τίμια.
At Rhodes there happened to be pirates anchored beside them, Phoenicians by race, in a great trireme. They lay at anchor alongside as if they had a cargo, and they were many and strong. These men had found out (words lost) that the ship carried gold and silver and many valuable slaves.
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Book 1, chapter 13. The story steps back to Rhodes, where the couple spent a few days before sailing on toward Egypt.
A note on this passage
In Habrocomes' dream the woman who burned the ship wore a φοινικῆ robe, a crimson one (1.12.4). Now the danger comes as Φοίνικες, Phoenicians. Greek uses one word, φοῖνιξ, for a Phoenician and for that purple-red, the color of the dye made at Tyre, where these pirates will take the couple (1.14.6); Strabo says the city's many dye works made it unpleasant to live in and rich (Geography 16.2.23).
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