Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 2.10.1 · 2.10.1

Apsyrtus finds Manto's letter

Καὶ ἡ μὲν παρὰ τῷ αἰπόλῳ ἦν ἐν τῷ χωρίῳ πάντα χρόνον Ἁβροκόμην θρηνοῦσα· ὁ δὲ Ἄψυρτος ἐρευνώμενος τὸ οἰκημάτιον ἔνθα ὁ Ἁβροκόμης πρὸ τῆς κολάσεως διῆγεν, ἐπιτυγχάνει τῷ γραμματιδίῳ τῷ Μαντοῦς πρὸς Ἁβροκόμην καὶ γνωρίζει τὰ γράμματα, καὶ ὅτι ἀδίκως Ἁβροκόμην τιμωρεῖται ἔμαθεν· εὐθὺς οὖν λῦσαί τε αὐτὸν προσέταξε καὶ ἀγαγεῖν εἰς ὄψιν.

So Anthia was with the goatherd on the farm, mourning Habrocomes all the time. Apsyrtus, searching the little room where Habrocomes had lived before his punishment, came upon Manto's note to Habrocomes and recognized the handwriting, and he learned that he was punishing Habrocomes unjustly. At once he ordered Habrocomes to be unchained and brought before him.

Word by word

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The setting

Book 2, chapter 10. Anthia has been given to a goatherd in Syria, and in Tyre Habrocomes lies in chains, falsely accused by Manto, the daughter of his master Apsyrtus.

A note on this passage

When Manto first accused Habrocomes, her father believed her and did not look any further into what had happened (ἠρεύνησε μὲν τὸ πραχθὲν οὐκέτι, 2.6.1). Now he is searching (ἐρευνώμενος, the same verb) the room Habrocomes lived in, and he comes upon the proof: the tablet Manto sent at 2.5.1, which Habrocomes kept when he wrote his refusal on another (2.5.4). The order to unchain him, λῦσαί τε αὐτόν, repeats the words of Habrocomes' dream in his cell, where his father appeared and "loosed him" (λῦσαί τʼ αὐτόν, 2.8.2).

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