Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 1.6.1 · 1.6.1
Both families ask Apollo for the truth
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Ὀλίγον δὲ ἀπέχει τὸ ἱερὸν τοῦ ἐν Κολοφῶνι Ἀπόλλωνος· διάπλους ἀπʼ Ἐφέσου σταδίων ὀγδοήκοντα. Ἐνταῦθα οἱ παρʼ ἑκατέρων ἀφικόμενοι δέονται τοῦ θεοῦ ἀληθῆ μαντεύεσθαι· ἐληλύθεσαν δὴ κατὰ ταὐτά.
The shrine of Apollo at Colophon is a short way off: the crossing from Ephesus is eighty stades. There the men who arrived from both families begged the god to prophesy the truth; they had come, in fact, on the same errand.
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Book 1, chapter 6. Habrocomes and Anthia lie sick with a love neither can speak of, and their fathers have sent to a god to learn the cause and the cure.
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Colophon's shrine of Apollo stood at Claros; eighty stades by sea is about fifteen kilometers. The families ask for ἀληθῆ, "true things": the seers brought to Anthia had pretended (προσεποιοῦντο) that the trouble came from the gods below (1.5.7). Both had come κατὰ ταὐτά, "on the same errand," and the god will answer them together.
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