Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 2.2.4 · 2.2.4
The crowd takes them for gods
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Περίβλεπτος δὲ ἦν αὐτῶν ἡ πομπὴ καὶ πάντες ἐτεθαυμάκεσαν τὸ κάλλος, καὶ ἄνθρωποι βάρβαροι μήπω πρότερον τοσαύτην ἰδόντες εὐμορφίαν θεοὺς ἐνόμιζον εἶναι τοὺς βλεπομένους, ἐμακάριζον δὲ τὸν Ἄψυρτον οἵους οἰκέτας εἴη κεκτημένος.
Their procession drew every eye, and everyone marveled at their beauty. Barbarian people who had never before seen such beauty thought that those they saw were gods, and they called Apsyrtus blessed for the slaves he had acquired.
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Book 2, chapter 2. Apsyrtus brings his new slaves into Tyre, a Phoenician city.
A note on this passage
The scene repeats the festival of Artemis in Book 1. There the young people of Ephesus walked in a πομπή, a procession; some in the crowd said Anthia was the goddess, and all of them ἐμακάριζον, "called blessed," her parents (1.2.7). Here the πομπή is a line of captives being led into Tyre. The crowd again takes them for gods, and this time the man they call blessed is their owner, Apsyrtus.
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