Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 2.10.2 · 2.10.2
Apsyrtus makes amends
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Πόνηρα δὲ καὶ ἐλεεινὰ πεπονθὼς προσπίπτει τοῖς γόνασι τοῖς Ἀψύρτου, ὁ δὲ αὐτὸν ἀνίστησι καὶ θάρρει ἔφη, ὦ μειράκιον· ἀδίκως σου κατέγνων πεισθεὶς θυγατρὸς λόγοις· ἀλλὰ νῦν μέν σε ἐλεύθερον ἀντὶ δούλου ποιήσω, δίδωμι δέ σοι τῆς οἰκίας ἄρχειν τῆς ἐμῆς καὶ γυναῖκα ἄξομαι τῶν πολιτῶν τινος θυγατέρα· σὺ δὲ μὴ μνησικακήσῃς τῶν γεγενημένων, οὐ γὰρ ἑκών σε ἠδίκησα.
Habrocomes, who had suffered terrible and pitiful things, fell at Apsyrtus' knees. But Apsyrtus raised him up and said: "Take heart, young man. I condemned you unjustly, persuaded by my daughter's words. But now I will make you a free man instead of a slave, I give you my household to rule, and I will find you a wife, the daughter of one of the citizens. Do not bear a grudge for what has happened, for I did not wrong you willingly."
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Book 2, chapter 10. Habrocomes is brought out of prison before Apsyrtus.
A note on this passage
μὴ μνησικακήσῃς, "do not bear a grudge," is the verb of the Athenian amnesty after the rule of the Thirty: the Athenian historian Xenophon ends his account of that civil war with the citizens swearing "not to remember wrongs" (μὴ μνησικακήσειν, Hellenica 2.4.43). The same verb was used of Apsyrtus' daughter when she reached Antioch: she "bore a grudge" against Rhode (ἐμνησικάκει, 2.9.1), and had her shipped off with Leucon to be sold.
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