Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 2.1.6 · 2.1.6
Anthia chooses death
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Ἀλλὰ μὴ οὕτως ἐγὼ φιλόζωος γενοίμην, μηδʼ ὑπομείναιμι ὑβρισθεῖσα ἰδεῖν τὸν ἥλιον. Δεδόχθω ταῦτα· ἀποθνήσκωμεν, Ἁβροκόμη· ἕξομεν ἀλλήλους μετὰ θάνατον, ὑπʼ οὐδενὸς ἐνοχλούμενοι.
"But may I not be so in love with life, nor endure to see the sun once I have been dishonored. Let this be decided: let us die, Habrocomes. We will have each other after death, troubled by no one."
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Book 2, chapter 1. Anthia ends her answer to Habrocomes.
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Δεδόχθω ταῦτα, "let this be decided," is the verb of a city's decrees, and the same words Habrocomes spoke at 1.4.3 when he resolved that Eros would never master him. Anthia's decision is for both of them: ἀποθνήσκωμεν, "let us die." On the voyage she swore that if she were torn from Habrocomes she would "neither live nor look on the sun" (1.11.5), and the sun comes back in her wish not to see it once dishonored.
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