Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 2.11.9 · 2.11.9
Sold to merchants from Cilicia
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Ὁ δὲ αἰπόλος λαβόμενος τῆς Ἀνθείας ᾤχετο ἐπὶ τὸν λιμένα· εὑρὼν δὲ ἐκεῖ ἐμπόρους ἄνδρας Κίλικας ἀπέδοτο τὴν κόρην, καὶ λαβὼν τὴν ὑπὲρ αὐτῆς τιμὴν ἧκεν εἰς τὸν ἀγρόν.
The goatherd took Anthia and went off to the harbor. He found merchants there, men from Cilicia, and sold the girl to them; and when he had received the price for her he went back to the farm.
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Book 2, chapter 11. Anthia has thanked the goatherd and begged him to sell her.
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The buyers are Cilicians, from the coast of southern Asia Minor. Cilicia had been the great base of the pirates who raided the whole Mediterranean until Pompey cleared the sea of them in 67 BC (Plutarch, Pompey 24–28), and in this story it is still a country of robbers. When Habrocomes learns of the sale, he will set out on the road to Cilicia to find her (2.12.3).
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