Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 1.13.3 · 1.13.3
Corymbus, leader of the pirates
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Τῶν δὲ πειρατῶν ὁ ἔξαρχος Κόρυμβος ἐκαλεῖτο, νεανίας ὀφθῆναι μέγας, φοβερὸς τὸ βλέμμα· κόμη ἦν αὐτῷ αὐχμηρὰ καθειμένη.
The leader of the pirates was called Corymbus: a young man, big to look at, with a fearsome gaze. His hair hung down unkempt.
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Book 1, chapter 13. The narrator describes the leader of the pirates before the attack begins.
A note on this passage
Corymbus' name is a Greek word in its own right. κόρυμβος means the top of a thing: the high point of a ship's stern, or a knot of hair tied on the crown of the head. Homer uses it once, in Hector's threat to hack the κόρυμβα off the Greek ships and burn the ships (Iliad 9.241–242); in the next chapter this Corymbus burns Habrocomes' ship (1.14.1).
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