Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 2.12.3 · 2.12.3
Lampon tells him about Anthia
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Ὁ δὲ αἰπόλος καὶ τοὔνομα εἶπεν ὅτι Ἄνθεια καὶ τὸν γάμον καὶ τὴν εὐσέβειαν τὴν περὶ αὐτὴν καὶ τὸν Μοίριδος ἔρωτα καὶ τὸ πρόσταγμα τὸ κατʼ αὐτῆς καὶ τὴν εἰς Κιλικίαν ὁδόν· ἔλεγέ τε ὡς ἀεί τινος Ἁβροκόμου μέμνηται ἡ κόρη. Ὁ δὲ αὐτὸν ὅστις ἦν οὐ λέγει, ἕωθεν δὲ ἀναστὰς ἤλαυνε τὴν ἐπὶ Κιλικίας ἐλπίζων Ἄνθειαν εὑρήσειν ἐκεῖ.
The goatherd told him her name, that it was Anthia, and told him about the marriage, the reverence he had shown her, Moeris' love, the order against her, and the journey to Cilicia; and he said that the girl always remembered a certain Habrocomes. Habrocomes did not say who he was. Rising at dawn, he travelled the road to Cilicia, hoping to find Anthia there.
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Book 2, chapter 12. Lampon, who spared Anthia and sold her to merchants from Cilicia, does not know who is asking.
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εὐσέβεια is reverence toward the gods, and here it is the goatherd's conduct toward Anthia: he had sworn to keep her untouched (2.9.4), and when Manto ordered her death he spared her, fearing the gods and pitying her beauty (2.11.7). Anthia had called him the man "who until now has acted with reverence," ὃς μέχρι νῦν εὐσέβησας (2.11.5). He tells all this to a stranger, and speaks of "a certain Habrocomes" to Habrocomes himself.
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