Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 2.1.1 · 2.1.1
The captives weep in their room
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Καὶ ὁ μὲν Εὔξεινος καὶ ὁ Κόρυμβος μετʼ ἀλλήλων ἦσαν περιμένοντες ὅ τι ἀκούσονται, ἤλπιζον δʼ αὐτοὺς ῥᾳδίως πείσειν· ὁ δὲ Ἁβροκόμης καὶ ἡ Ἄνθεια ἧκον εἰς τὸ δωμάτιον ἔνθα συνήθως διῃτῶντο, καὶ πρὸς ἀλλήλους εἰπόντες ἅπερ ἠκηκόεσαν, καταβαλόντες ἑαυτοὺς ἔκλαον, ὠδύροντο.
Euxinus and Corymbus waited together for whatever they would hear, and they hoped to persuade them easily. But Habrocomes and Anthia came to the little room where they usually stayed and told each other what they had heard, and throwing themselves down, they wept and lamented.
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Book 2, chapter 1. On a pirate chief's estate near Tyre, Habrocomes and Anthia have each been told that a pirate loves them, and each has asked for time to think.
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Book 2 picks up where Book 1 left off. One sentence holds both sides, joined by μέν and δέ: the pirates wait together and hope, and the captives go to their room and weep. The pirates expect to persuade them ῥᾳδίως, "easily," the word used when Euxinus persuaded Corymbus himself to make their pact (1.15.6).
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