Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 1.13.2 · 1.13.2
The pirates make their plan
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Διέγνωσαν οὖν ἐπιθέμενοι τοὺς μὲν ἀντιμαχομένους ἀποκτιννύειν, τοὺς δὲ ἄλλους ἄγειν εἰς Φοινίκην πραθησομένους καὶ τὰ χρήματα· κατεφρόνουν δὲ ὡς οὐκ ἀξιομάχων αὐτῶν.
So they decided to attack, to kill those who fought back, and to take the rest to Phoenicia to be sold, along with the goods. They looked down on them as no match in a fight.
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Book 1, chapter 13. What the pirates decide to do with the ship and everyone on board.
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The plan puts the captives and the goods under one verb, ἄγειν, "to carry off," as a single cargo. Greek readers had met such traders in Homer. In the Odyssey the swineherd Eumaeus tells how Phoenician merchants came to his father's island with a ship full of trinkets, stayed a whole year, and sailed off with him as a small boy to sell; Laertes bought him on Ithaca (Odyssey 15.415–483).
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