Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 1.14.6 · 1.14.6
Three days to Tyre
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Τοῦτο δὲ Ἁβροκόμῃ πάντων ἦν ἐλεεινότατον· καὶ γὰρ τὰς χεῖρας ἐξέτεινε τῷ πρεσβύτῃ καὶ τοὺς πειρατὰς ἀναλαμβάνειν παρεκάλει· οἱ δὲ οὐδένα λόγον ποιησάμενοι, διανύσαντες ἡμέραις τρισὶ τὸν πλοῦν κατήχθησαν εἰς πόλιν τῆς Φοινίκης Τύρον, ἔνθα ἦν τοῖς πειραταῖς τὰ οἰκεῖα.
For Habrocomes this was the most pitiful thing of all: he stretched out his hands to the old man and begged the pirates to pick him up. But they paid no heed. They finished the voyage in three days and put in at Tyre, a city of Phoenicia, where the pirates had their homes.
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Book 1, chapter 14. Habrocomes watches from the warship.
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Tyre was the great port of Phoenicia, and Greek stories had long known Phoenician sailors as kidnappers. In the Odyssey the swineherd Eumaeus, a king's son, tells how Phoenician traders carried him off as a small boy and sold him on Ithaca (Odyssey 15.403–484). These pirates had planned from the first to take their captives to Phoenicia to be sold (1.13.2).
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