Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 1.16.2 · 1.16.2
The pirates take them aside
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Ἔρχονται δὴ πρὸς αὐτοὺς ὁ Κόρυμβος καὶ ὁ Εὔξεινος καὶ φράσαντες ἰδίᾳ τι θέλειν εἰπεῖν, ἀπάγουσι καθʼ αὑτοὺς ὁ μὲν τὴν Ἄνθειαν, ὁ δὲ τὸν Ἁβροκόμην. Τοῖς δὲ αἵ τε ψυχαὶ ἐκραδαίνοντο καὶ οὐδὲν ὑγιὲς ὑπενόουν.
Then Corymbus and Euxinus came to them. Telling them that they wanted to say something in private, they led them off apart, one taking Anthia and the other Habrocomes. Their souls trembled, and they suspected nothing good.
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Book 1, chapter 16. Corymbus and Euxinus put their plan to work.
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The pirates carry out the plan they made at the end of 1.15: each takes aside the one he is to win over for his friend, Corymbus taking Anthia and Euxinus taking Habrocomes. κραδαίνω is to brandish or shake a spear; in the passive Homer uses it for a spear quivering in the ground where it has struck (Iliad 13.504). The narrator used the same phrase, "their souls quivered" (ἐκραδαίνοντο αὐτοῖς αἱ ψυχαί), for the two of them on their wedding night (1.9.1), when they lay shy and afraid.
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