Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 1.3.3 · 1.3.3
They find excuses to linger
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Καὶ τότε μὲν θύσαντες ἀπηλλάττοντο λυπούμενοι καὶ τῷ τάχει τῆς ἀπαλλαγῆς μεμφόμενοι· ⟨καὶ⟩ ἀλλήλους βλέπειν ἐθέλοντες ἐπιστρεφόμενοι καὶ ὑφιστάμενοι πολλὰς προφάσεις διατριβῆς εὕρισκον.
Then, when they had sacrificed, they went away grieving and blaming the speed of the parting. And wanting to look at each other, they kept turning around and holding back, and found many excuses for delay.
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Book 1, chapter 3. The festival is over and the crowd leaves the temple.
A note on this passage
In 1.3.1 Habrocomes wanted ἀπαλλαγῆναι, "to get away," from the sight of Anthia, and could not. Here the same verb is used of both of them as they leave, ἀπηλλάττοντο, "they went away," and they blame the speed of the ἀπαλλαγή, "the parting," a noun made from it. The verb of wanting comes back too, ἐθέλοντες, and this time what they want is to look at each other.
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