Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 1.7.3 · 1.7.3
The city feasts before the wedding
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Μεστὴ μὲν ἤδη ἡ πόλις ἦν τῶν εὐωχουμένων, πάντα δʼ ἦν ἐστεφανωμένα καὶ διαβόητος ὁ μέλλων γάμος· ἐμακαρίζετο δὲ ὑπὸ πάντων ὁ μὲν οἷαν ἄξεται γυναῖκα, ἡ δὲ οἵῳ μειρακίῳ συγκατακλιθήσεται.
The city was already full of people feasting; everything was hung with garlands, and the coming wedding was talked of everywhere. Everyone counted him blessed for the wife he would take, and her for the youth she would lie beside.
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Book 1, chapter 7. Ephesus prepares for the wedding.
A note on this passage
The city uses the festival's words again. At 1.2.7 the crowd "called her parents blessed," ἐμακάριζον, and Anthia was διαβόητος, "talked of," by everyone who saw her; here the wedding is διαβόητος and the couple are called blessed. The word for blessed comes back on the burning ship in 1.14.3, where those about to die are called μακάριοι because they will die before they know bonds.
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