Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 1.14.4 · 1.14.4
The old tutor swims after them
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Ἐν τούτῳ δὲ ὁ τροφεὺς τοῦ Ἁβροκόμου πρεσβύτης ἤδη, σεμνὸς ἰδεῖν καὶ διὰ τὸ γῆρας ἐλεεινός, οὐκ ἐνεγκὼν ἀναγόμενον τὸν Ἁβροκόμην, ῥίψας ἑαυτὸν εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν ἐνήχετο ὡς καταληψόμενος τὴν τριήρη τίνι με καταλείπεις, τέκνον λέγων, τὸν γέροντα, τὸν παιδαγωγόν;
Meanwhile the man who had raised Habrocomes, already old, venerable to look at and pitiful because of his age, could not bear Habrocomes being carried off. He threw himself into the sea and swam as if to catch the warship, saying, "To whom are you leaving me, child, the old man, your tutor?"
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Book 1, chapter 14. Among those left on the burning ship is the old man who raised Habrocomes.
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The narrator calls him τροφεύς, "the one who raised" Habrocomes, and he calls himself παιδαγωγός, the household slave who walked a boy to school and watched over him. Homer gives a nurse a cry like his: when Telemachus plans to sail, his old τροφός Eurycleia laments, "Why, dear child (τέκνον), has this thought come into your mind?" (Odyssey 2.361–363).
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