Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 2.3.6 · 2.3.6
Rhode decides to tell Leucon
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Ἔδοξεν οὖν αὐτῇ καλῶς ἔχειν Λεύκωνι πρῶτον ἀνακοινῶσαι τὰ ὑπὸ τῆς Μαντοῦς εἰρημένα. Ἦν δὲ καὶ τῇ Ῥόδῃ κοινωνήματα ἐξ ἔρωτος γενόμενα πρὸς Λεύκωνα, καὶ συνῆσαν ἀλλήλοις ἔτι ἐν Ἐφέσῳ.
So she thought it best to share what Manto had said with Leucon first. Rhode too had a bond with Leucon that had grown out of love, and they had been together while they were still in Ephesus.
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Book 2, chapter 3. Rhode, threatened by Manto, cannot bring herself to speak to Habrocomes.
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The message now passes from one slave to another: Rhode tells Leucon first, and in the next chapter he carries it to Habrocomes (2.4.1). The narrator adds that the two slaves are a couple as well, and have been since Ephesus. His word for their bond, κοινωνήματα, "things shared," comes from κοινός, "common"; at the end of the romance Leucon and Rhode are κοινωνοί, "sharers," in everything with the couple they grew up with (5.15.4).
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