Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 1.5.5 · 1.5.5
Habrocomes wastes away
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Χρόνου δὲ προϊόντος οὐκέτι τὸ μειράκιον ἐκαρτέρει, ἤδη δὲ αὐτῷ καὶ τὸ σῶμα πᾶν ἠφάνιστο καὶ ἡ ψυχὴ κατεπεπτώκει, ὥστε ἐν πολλῇ ἀθυμίᾳ τὸν Λυκομήδην καὶ τὴν Θεμιστὼ γεγονέναι, οὐκ εἰδότας μὲν ὅ τι εἴη τὸ συμβαῖνον Ἁβροκόμῃ, δεδοικότας δὲ ἐκ τῶν ὁρωμένων.
As time went on, the youth could hold out no longer. By now his whole body had wasted away and his soul had collapsed, so that Lycomedes and Themisto fell into great dismay. They did not know what was happening to Habrocomes, and what they saw frightened them.
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The setting
Book 1, chapter 5. Lycomedes and Themisto are Habrocomes' parents (1.1.1).
A note on this passage
καρτερέω, "to hold out," is the verb of Habrocomes' question to himself in 1.4.2: οὐ καρτερήσω νῦν; "Shall I not hold out now?" Here the narrator gives the answer: the youth "no longer held out." The body he was proudest of (1.1.4) "had wasted away," ἠφάνιστο, from ἀφανίζω, "to make unseen."
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