Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 1.2.7 · 1.2.7
The crowd takes her for Artemis
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Πολλάκις αὐτὴν ἐπὶ τοῦ τεμένους ἰδόντες Ἐφέσιοι προσεκύνησαν ὡς Ἄρτεμιν. Καὶ τότʼ οὖν ὀφθείσης ἀνεβόησε τὸ πλῆθος, καὶ ἦσαν ποικίλαι παρὰ τῶν θεωμένων φωναί, τῶν μὲν ὑπʼ ἐκπλήξεως τὴν θεὸν εἶναι λεγόντων, τῶν δὲ ἄλλην τινὰ ὑπὸ τῆς θεοῦ περιποιημένην· προσεύχοντο δὲ πάντες καὶ προσεκύνουν καὶ τοὺς γονεῖς αὐτῆς ἐμακάριζον· ἦν δὲ διαβόητος τοῖς θεωμένοις ἅπασιν Ἄνθεια ἡ καλή.
Many times the Ephesians had seen her in the temple grounds and bowed down to her as Artemis. So then too, when she appeared, the crowd cried out, and the onlookers' voices were of every kind: some, amazed, said she was the goddess; others said she was someone else, kept by the goddess as her own. They all prayed and bowed down, and they called her parents blessed, and "Anthia the beautiful" was the talk of all the onlookers.
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Book 1, chapter 2. What the people of Ephesus say when they see her.
A note on this passage
Homer has a scene like this one. When Odysseus first sees Nausicaa he likens her to Artemis and calls her father and mother "three times blessed" (Odyssey 6.149–155); here the Ephesians take Anthia for Artemis and ἐμακάριζον, "called blessed," her parents. The verbs of worship, προσκυνέω, "bow down," and προσεύχομαι, "pray," are the ones the narrator used for Habrocomes in 1.1.3.
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