Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 2.3.5 · 2.3.5
Manto threatens Rhode
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Ἔφη δʼ ἴσθι μὲν οἰκέτις οὖσα ἐμή, ἴσθι δὲ ὀργῆς πειρασομένη βαρβάρου καὶ ἠδικημένης. Ταῦτα εἰποῦσα ἀπέπεμπε τὴν Ῥόδην· ἡ δὲ ἐν ἀμηχάνῳ κακῷ ἐγεγόνει· τὸ γὰρ εἰπεῖν Ἁβροκόμῃ παρῃτεῖτο, φιλοῦσα τὴν Ἄνθειαν· πάνυ δὲ ἐδεδοίκει τῆς βαρβάρου τὴν ὀργήν.
Then she said, "Know that you are my slave, and know that you will feel the anger of a barbarian woman, and a wronged one." With these words she sent Rhode away. Rhode found herself in trouble with no way out. She shrank from speaking to Habrocomes, because she loved Anthia, but she was terribly afraid of the barbarian woman's anger.
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Book 2, chapter 3. Manto has told Rhode of her love and asked for her help.
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Manto calls herself βάρβαρος, the Greek word for anyone who did not speak Greek, and the narrator takes it up at once: Rhode fears "the barbarian woman's anger." The anger of a foreign woman who has been wronged is the subject of Euripides' Medea, whose nurse says she lies weeping "since she learned she was wronged by her husband," with the same word, ἠδικημένη (Medea 26). Manto's father bears the name that myth gives Medea's brother, Apsyrtus (Apollodorus 1.9.24).
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