Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 2.12.2 · 2.12.2
Habrocomes leaves in secret
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Ταῦτα μαθὼν ὁ Ἁβροκόμης οὐκέτι μένειν ἐκαρτέρει· λαθὼν οὖν τὸν Ἄψυρτον καὶ πάντας τοὺς κατὰ τὸν οἶκον εἰς ἐπιζήτησιν τῆς Ἀνθείας ἔρχεται. Ἐλθὼν οὖν ἐν τῷ ἀγρῷ ἔνθα μετὰ τοῦ αἰπόλου ἡ Ἄνθεια διέτριβεν, *** ἄγει δὴ παρὰ τὸν αἰγιαλὸν τὸν Λάμπωνα τὸν αἰπόλον, ᾧ πρὸς γάμον ἐδεδώκει τὴν Ἄνθειαν ἡ Μαντώ, ἐδεῖτο δὲ τοῦ Λάμπωνος εἰπεῖν αὐτῷ εἴ τι οἶδε περὶ κόρης ἐκ Τύρου.
When Habrocomes learned this, he could no longer bear to stay. So, unnoticed by Apsyrtus and everyone in the household, he went in search of Anthia. Coming to the farm where Anthia had been living with the goatherd, (words lost) he took Lampon the goatherd, to whom Manto had given Anthia in marriage, to the shore, and begged Lampon to tell him whether he knew anything about a girl from Tyre.
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Book 2, chapter 12. Manto's letter has reached her father's house, and with it news of Anthia.
A note on this passage
Some words are missing after διέτριβεν, "had been living": the only manuscript has a gap here, which the editor marks with asterisks. As the text stands, it does not say how Habrocomes found the goatherd or why he took him to the shore. λαθών, "unnoticed," means he left in secret the house where Apsyrtus had freed him and put him in charge (2.10.2). He had asked himself then what use freedom was to him, and wished to find Anthia "alive or dead" (2.10.3).
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