Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 1.5.8 · 1.5.8
The love burns higher
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Πολλὰ δὲ καὶ ὑπὲρ Ἁβροκόμου οἱ περὶ τὸν Λυκομήδην ἔθυόν τε καὶ εὔχοντο· λύσις δὲ οὐδεμία τοῦ δεινοῦ οὐδὲ ἑτέρῳ αὐτῶν ἐγίνετο, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἔτι μᾶλλον ὁ ἔρως ἀνεκάετο.
Lycomedes and his household also sacrificed and prayed a great deal for Habrocomes. But no release from the trouble came to either of them; their love blazed up even more.
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The setting
Book 1, chapter 5. Habrocomes' family tries the same remedies.
A note on this passage
ἀνεκάετο, "blazed up," is a fire word: ἀνακαίω means to kindle a fire, and the narrator used it of their love when they came home from the festival (1.3.4). Anthia's beauty in 1.5.6 was μαραινόμενον, "wasting away," a verb that first meant a fire dying down; in Homer the flame "died down," ἐμαράνθη (Iliad 9.212).
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