Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 1.5.2 · 1.5.2
The signs show on their bodies
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Ἦν δὲ αὐτοῖς καὶ τὰ σώματα ἐκ τῆς παρελθούσης νυκτὸς πεπονηκότα καὶ τὸ βλέμμα ἄθυμον καὶ οἱ χρῶτες ἠλλαγμένοι· καὶ τοῦτο ἐπὶ πολὺ ἐγίνετο καὶ πλέον οὐδὲν αὐτοῖς ἦν.
Their bodies were worn out from the night just past, their look was downcast, and their complexions had changed. This went on for a long time, and nothing more came of it for them.
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Book 1, chapter 5. The two have still not spoken a word to each other.
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The narrator gives the signs of the illness as a doctor would note them, from what shows on the body and the face. Greek poetry had long told love by its symptoms: in a famous poem of Sappho the lover trembles and turns "greener than grass" (fragment 31). The rest of the chapter treats love as a sickness, and in 1.5.9 the narrator calls it νόσος, "disease."
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