Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 1.15.3 · 1.15.3
Corymbus confides in Euxinus
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ὁ δὲ ἐλεοῦντα τὸν Κόρυμβον ἐνόμιζεν αὐτοῦ ποιεῖσθαι τὴν ἐπιμέλειαν· τὸ δεύτερον δὲ ἀνακοινοῦται ὁ Κόρυμβος τὸν ἔρωτα τῶν συλλῃστῶν τινι, Εὐξείνῳ τοὔνομα, καὶ δεῖται βοηθὸν γενέσθαι καὶ συμβουλεῦσαι τίνι τρόπῳ δυνήσεται πεῖσαι τὸ μειράκιον.
Habrocomes thought that Corymbus was looking after him out of pity. Next, Corymbus confided his love to one of his fellow pirates, a man named Euxinus, and asked him to be his helper and to advise him how he could persuade the youth.
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The setting
Book 1, chapter 15. At Tyre, Corymbus has begun by treating his captive Habrocomes kindly.
A note on this passage
Habrocomes reads the pirate's care as pity, ἐλεοῦντα, and the last chapter gave him reason to: the burning ship was a pitiful sight (ἐλεεινόν, 1.14.2), and his old tutor's death in the sea was to him the most pitiful thing of all (ἐλεεινότατον, 1.14.6). The narrator lets us see what he cannot, since the same section goes straight on to τὸ δεύτερον, "second," the next step in Corymbus' plan.
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