Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 1.9.4 · 1.9.4
Anthia teases Habrocomes
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Ἡ δὲ ὀλίγα αὐτὸν προσφθεγξαμένη ναὶ φησὶν Ἁβροκόμη, δοκῶ σοι καλή, καὶ μετὰ τὴν σὴν εὐμορφίαν ἀρέσκω σοι; Ἄνανδρε καὶ δειλέ, πόσον ἐβράδυνας ἐρῶν χρόνον; πόσον ἠμέλησας; ἀπὸ τῶν ἐμαυτῆς κακῶν ἃ πέπονθας οἶδα.
She spoke a few words to him: "Truly, Habrocomes, do I seem beautiful to you? After your own good looks, do I please you? Unmanly coward, how long did you delay while you were in love? How long did you neglect it? From my own troubles I know what you have suffered."
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Book 1, chapter 9. Anthia answers him.
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In their separate laments each had asked τί πέπονθα, "what has happened to me?" (Habrocomes at 1.4.1, Anthia at 1.4.6). Now Anthia answers with the same verb: from her own troubles she knows ἃ πέπονθας, "what you have suffered." Her reproach ἄνανδρε, "unmanly," is the word Habrocomes used of himself in his lament (1.4.2), and ἐβράδυνας, "you delayed," recalls the wedding day, when everything seemed slow to them both (1.8.1).
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