Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 2.1.5 · 2.1.5
Anthia tells what she heard
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Ταῦτα ἔλεγε καὶ ἐπεδάκρυεν· ἡ δὲ Ἄνθεια φεῦ τῶν κακῶν εἶπεν, ταχέως τι τῶν ὅρκων *** ἀναγκαζόμεθα, ταχέως τῆς δουλείας πειρώμεθα· ἐρᾷ τις ἐμοῦ καὶ πείσειν ἤλπιζεν ⟨καὶ⟩ εἰς εὐνὴν ἐλεύσεσθαι τὴν ἐμὴν μετὰ Ἁβροκόμην καὶ συγκατακλιθήσεσθαι καὶ ἀπολαύσειν ἐπιθυμίας.
He said this and wept. And Anthia said: "Alas for our troubles! So soon we are forced (words lost) something of our oaths; so soon we are experiencing slavery. Someone loves me, and he hoped to persuade me, and to come into my bed after Habrocomes, and to lie beside me, and to enjoy his desire."
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The setting
Book 2, chapter 1. Anthia answers; Corymbus has pleaded with her on behalf of Euxinus (1.16.7).
A note on this passage
Words are lost here from the only manuscript, after τῶν ὅρκων, "our oaths," and the editor marks the gap with asterisks. ἀναγκαζόμεθα, "we are forced," needs a verb to say what they are forced to do with "something of our oaths," and no such verb survives. The oaths are the ones the two swore at sea (1.11.4–6), and the pirates' proposals put them to the test. Anthia's "he hoped to persuade," πείσειν ἤλπιζεν, repeats what the narrator told us of both pirates at the start of the chapter (2.1.1).
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