Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 2.13.7 · 2.13.7
Perilaus offers her everything
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Ἔλεγεν οὖν πρὸς τὴν Ἄνθειαν ὡς πάντα ἂν αὐτὴ γένοιτο Περιλάῳ, γυνὴ καὶ δεσπότις καὶ παῖδες.
So he told Anthia that she would be everything to Perilaus: wife, lady of the house and children.
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Book 2, chapter 13. In Tarsus, Perilaus, who is rich and has no wife or children, has fallen in love with Anthia.
A note on this passage
Perilaus' offer follows an old pattern of love talk. In the Iliad Andromache tells Hector that he is father and mother and brother to her as well as her husband (Iliad 6.429–430). Perilaus has no wife or children of his own and offers Anthia every place in his house at once. δεσπότις is the feminine of δεσπότης, "master": Anthia has been a captive since the pirates took her (1.13–1.14), and she would be mistress of a household.
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