Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 1.4.6 · 1.4.6
Anthia is mad for Habrocomes
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Διέκειτο δὲ καὶ ἡ Ἄνθεια πονήρως· καὶ οὐκέτι φέρειν δυναμένη ἐπεγείρει ἑαυτήν, πειρωμένη τοὺς παρόντας λανθάνειν. Τί φησὶν ἡ δυστυχὴς πέπονθα; παρθένος παρʼ ἡλικίαν ἐρῶ καὶ ὀδυνῶμαι καινὰ καὶ κόρῃ μὴ πρέποντα. Ἐφʼ Ἁβροκόμῃ μαίνομαι καλῷ μέν, ἀλλʼ ὑπερηφάνῳ.
Anthia too was in a bad way. No longer able to bear it, she raised herself up, trying to escape the notice of the people near her. "What has happened to me," she said, "wretch that I am? I am a girl, and I am in love beyond my years, and I suffer pains that are strange and not fitting for a girl. I am mad for Habrocomes: beautiful, yes, but proud."
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Book 1, chapter 4. The same night, in her own home, Anthia suffers as he does.
A note on this passage
The narrator turns to Anthia with almost the same sentence he used for her at the festival, Διέκειτο δὲ καὶ Ἄνθεια πονήρως (1.3.2), and gives her a speech that answers his. She opens with his question and his word, τί πέπονθα and δυστυχής, and her ὀδυνῶμαι, "I suffer pain," is the verb of what Eros did to him in 1.4.4 (ὠδύνα, "he pained him").
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