Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 2.14.1 · 2.14.1
Habrocomes meets the bandit Hippothous
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Καὶ ἡ μὲν ἐν Ταρσῷ ἦν μετὰ Περιλάου, τὸν χρόνον ἀναμένουσα τοῦ γάμου· ὁ δὲ Ἁβροκόμης ᾔει τὴν ἐπὶ Κιλικίας ὁδόν· καὶ ⟨οὐ⟩ πρὸ πολλοῦ τοῦ ἄντρου τοῦ λῃστρικοῦ (ἀπεπεπλάνητο γὰρ καὶ αὐτὸς τῆς ἐπ’ εὐθὺ ὁδοῦ) συντυγχάνει τῷ Ἱπποθόῳ ὡπλισμένῳ.
So Anthia was in Tarsus with Perilaus, waiting for the time of the wedding, while Habrocomes was traveling the road toward Cilicia. Not far from the robbers' cave (for he too had strayed from the direct road) he came upon Hippothous, who was armed.
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The setting
Book 2, chapter 14. Perilaus has taken Anthia to Tarsus and sworn to wait thirty days for the wedding, and Habrocomes is on the road, looking for her.
A note on this passage
The negative is the editor's: the manuscript has only πρὸ πολλοῦ, "far in front of" the cave. With οὐ added the phrase means "not far from," and the author uses it again when Hippothous says his band was taken "not long before I saw you" (οὐ πρὸ πολλοῦ τοῦ σε ἰδεῖν, 3.2.14). "He too had strayed" looks back to Anthia and the shipwrecked merchants, who were wandering in the forest at night when Hippothous' men caught them (πλανώμενοι, 2.11.11).
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