Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 1.2.9 · 1.2.9
Talk of a wedding
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Ἤδη δέ τινες καὶ τοῦτο προσέθεσαν οἷος ἂν γάμος γένοιτο Ἁβροκόμου καὶ Ἀνθείας. Καὶ ταῦτʼ ἦν πρῶτα τῆς Ἔρωτος τέχνης μελετήματα. Ταχὺ μὲν δὴ εἰς ἑκατέρους ἡ περὶ ἀλλήλων ἦλθε δόξα· καὶ ἥ τε Ἄνθεια τὸν Ἁβροκόμην ἐπεθύμει ἰδεῖν, καὶ ὁ τέως ἀνέραστος Ἁβροκόμης ἤθελεν Ἄνθειαν ἰδεῖν.
Some were already adding this too: what a marriage it would be, Habrocomes and Anthia. These were the first exercises of Eros' craft. Word of each soon reached the other, and Anthia longed to see Habrocomes, and Habrocomes, until then never in love, wanted to see Anthia.
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Book 1, chapter 2. The talk of the crowd reaches the two young people.
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The chapter ends on the verb of Habrocomes' boast. He had said that no one would fall in love μὴ θέλων, "not wanting to" (1.1.5); now, "until then never in love," he ἤθελεν, "wanted," to see Anthia. The narrator calls the crowd's talk the first μελετήματα, "exercises," of Eros' τέχνη, his craft; in 1.2.1 the god went looking for a τέχνη, "a way," against the boy.
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