Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 2.14.2 · 2.14.2
Hippothous asks him to share the road
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Ὁ δὲ αὐτὸν ἰδὼν προστρέχει καὶ φιλοφρονεῖται καὶ δεῖται κοινωνὸν γενέσθαι τῆς ὁδοῦ. Ὁρῶ γάρ σε, ὦ μειράκιον, ὅστις ποτὲ εἶ, καὶ ὀφθῆναι καλὸν καὶ ἄλλως ἀνδρικόν· καὶ ἡ πλάνη φαίνεται πάντως ἀδικουμένου.
When Hippothous saw him, he ran up, greeted him warmly and asked him to be his companion on the road. "For I see, young man, whoever you are, that you are handsome to look at and manly besides, and your wandering surely looks like that of a man who has been wronged."
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Book 2, chapter 14. Hippothous, the bandit chief, was the only one of his band to escape when Perilaus attacked.
A note on this passage
The narrator reports the request and then gives Hippothous' own words with no "he said"; γάρ, "for," makes them his reason for asking. ὅστις ποτὲ εἶ, "whoever you are": Hippothous does not know that the young man is the husband of the girl his band was about to sacrifice to Ares when Perilaus attacked (2.13.1–4), and Habrocomes does not know that the armed man greeting him led that band. They find it out only in Cappadocia, when the two tell each other their stories (3.3.4–5).
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