Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 2.11.4 · 2.11.4
Anthia blames her beauty
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Ὁ δὲ οἰκτείρει μὲν τὴν κόρην, δεδοικὼς δὲ τὴν Μαντὼ ἔρχεται παρὰ τὴν Ἄνθειαν καὶ λέγει τὰ κατʼ αὐτῆς δεδογμένα. Ἡ δὲ ἀνεκώκυέ τε καὶ ἀνωδύρετο φεῦ λέγουσα, τοῦτο τὸ κάλλος ἐπίβουλον ἀμφοτέροις πανταχοῦ· διὰ τὴν ἄκαιρον εὐμορφίαν Ἁβροκόμης μὲν ἐν Τύρῳ τέθνηκεν, ἐγὼ δὲ ἐνταῦθα·
He pitied the girl, but out of fear of Manto he went to Anthia and told her what had been decided against her. She wailed aloud and broke into lament, saying: "Alas! This beauty is treacherous to us both, everywhere. Because of our ill-timed beauty Habrocomes has died in Tyre, and I die here."
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Book 2, chapter 11. Manto has ordered the goatherd to kill Anthia in the woods.
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Anthia believes Habrocomes is dead, and she blames the beauty they share, ἀμφοτέροις, "to us both." Habrocomes' beauty won him Manto's love and, after her lie, his punishment in Tyre (2.5–2.6); Anthia's has now brought her the love of Moeris. The reader knows more than she does: in the last chapter Apsyrtus found Manto's letter and set Habrocomes free (2.10.1–2).
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