Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 2.11.3 · 2.11.3
Manto orders Anthia killed
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Τότε μὲν οὖν τὴν ἡσυχίαν ἤγαγεν· ἀποδημήσαντος δὲ τοῦ Μοίριδος μεταπέμπεται τὸν αἰπόλον καὶ κελεύει λαβόντα τὴν Ἄνθειαν εἰς τὸ δασύτατον ἀγαγόντα τῆς ὕλης ἀποκτεῖναι καὶ τούτου μισθὸν αὐτῷ δώσειν ὑπέσχετο.
For the time being, then, she kept quiet. But when Moeris had gone away on a journey, she sent for the goatherd and ordered him to take Anthia, lead her into the thickest part of the wood and kill her, and she promised to give him a reward for it.
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Book 2, chapter 11. Manto has learned from the goatherd that her husband Moeris loves Anthia.
A note on this passage
Manto's order is worded like a famous one in Herodotus, where a herdsman is told, on the king's orders, to take the infant Cyrus and leave him ἐς τὸ ἐρημότατον τῶν ὀρέων, "in the loneliest part of the mountains" (Herodotus 1.110). The phrase is built just like Manto's εἰς τὸ δασύτατον τῆς ὕλης, "into the thickest part of the wood." In Herodotus the herdsman's wife persuades him to keep the child, and the two of them raise Cyrus as their own son (Herodotus 1.111–113).
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