Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 2.11.10 · 2.11.10
Shipwreck on the way to Cilicia
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Οἱ δὲ ἔμποροι λαβόντες τὴν Ἄνθειαν εἰς τὸ πλοῖον ἦγον καὶ νυκτὸς ἐπελθούσης ᾔεσαν τὴν ἐπὶ Κιλικίας· ἐναντίῳ δὲ πνεύματι κατεχόμενοι καὶ τῆς νεὼς διαρραγείσης μόλις ἐν σανίδι τινὲς σωθέντες ἐπʼ αἰγιαλοῦ τινος ἦλθον· εἶχον δὲ καὶ τὴν Ἄνθειαν.
The merchants took Anthia aboard their ship, and when night came on they set out on the way to Cilicia. But a contrary wind held them back, and the ship broke apart. Some of them were barely saved on a plank and came to a beach, and they had Anthia with them.
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The setting
Book 2, chapter 11. Anthia now belongs to merchants from Cilicia, on the southern coast of Asia Minor.
A note on this passage
σανίς is a board or plank. When the ship taking Paul to Rome breaks up off Malta, the rest of those on board get to land the same way, "some on planks" (ἐπὶ σανίσιν, Acts 27:44). This is the second ship lost in the story: the pirates burned the one that carried Anthia and Habrocomes from Ephesus (1.14.1).
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