Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 2.3.2 · 2.3.2
Manto has no one to tell
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Αὕτη ἡ Μαντὼ ἐκ τῆς συνήθους μετὰ τοῦ Ἁβροκόμου διαίτης ἁλίσκεται καὶ ἀκατασχέτως εἶχε καὶ ἠπόρει ὅ τι ποιήσαι· οὔτε γὰρ πρὸς τὸν Ἁβροκόμην εἰπεῖν ἐτόλμα, γυναῖκα εἰδυῖα ἔχοντα καὶ πείσειν οὐδέποτε ἐλπίζουσα, οὔτε ἄλλῳ τινὶ τῶν ἑαυτῆς δέει τοῦ πατρός·
Living every day in Habrocomes' company, Manto was captured. She could not contain herself, and she did not know what to do. She dared not speak to Habrocomes, since she knew he had a wife and never hoped to persuade him, nor to anyone else of her own people, for fear of her father.
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Book 2, chapter 3. Habrocomes now lives as a slave in the house of Manto's father, Apsyrtus.
A note on this passage
ἁλίσκεται, "is captured," is the verb for a city taken in war or a prisoner caught, and this romance uses it more than once for falling in love: it is the word for Anthia at the festival of Artemis (1.3.1). Here the pirate's daughter is the one captured, by one of her father's captives. The adverb ἀκατασχέτως, "beyond control," repeats the word for the love of Habrocomes and Anthia on the night after the festival (ἀκατάσχετος, 1.3.4).
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