Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 2.2.2 · 2.2.2
Corymbus and Euxinus give them up
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Τὰ μὲν οὖν ἄλλα χρήματα καὶ κτήματα καὶ παρθένους ὅσαι συνελήφθησαν διένειμε τοῖς περὶ τὸν Κόρυμβον ⟦πειραταῖς⟧· ὁ δὲ Εὔξεινος καὶ ὁ Κόρυμβος ἄκοντες μὲν συνεχώρουν τοὺς περὶ τὸν Ἁβροκόμην τῷ Ἀψύρτῳ, συνεχώρουν δʼ οὖν ἀνάγκῃ.
So he shared out the rest of the goods and property, and all the girls who had been captured, among Corymbus and his men. Euxinus and Corymbus gave up Habrocomes and his people to Apsyrtus unwillingly; but still they gave them up, because they had to.
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Book 2, chapter 2. Apsyrtus shares out what Corymbus' crew brought back from the raid on the ship.
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The verb comes twice: ἄκοντες μὲν συνεχώρουν … συνεχώρουν δʼ οὖν ἀνάγκῃ, "they gave them up unwillingly, but still they gave them up, because they had to." Greek uses δʼ οὖν in this way, to grant a point and then come back to the fact. Hercher prints πειραταῖς, "pirates," after "Corymbus and his men," but marks it for deletion; the phrase is complete without it, and our prose reads around it.
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