Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 2.3.7 · 2.3.7
Rhode breaks the news to Leucon
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Τότε δὴ λαβομένη μόνου ὦ Λεύκων ἔφη, ἀπολώλαμεν τελέως· νῦν οὐκέτι τοὺς συντρόφους ἕξομεν· ἡ τοῦ δεσπότου θυγάτηρ Ἀψύρτου ἐρᾷ μὲν Ἁβροκόμου σφοδρὸν ἔρωτα, ἀπειλεῖ δέ, εἰ μὴ τύχοι, δεινὰ ἡμᾶς ἐργάσεσθαι·
Then she got him alone and said, "Leucon, we are utterly lost. Now we will no longer have the companions we grew up with. Our master Apsyrtus' daughter loves Habrocomes with a fierce love, and she threatens to do terrible things to us if she does not get her way."
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Book 2, chapter 3. Rhode goes to Leucon, the other slave taken with the couple.
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Rhode's first thought is for the two slaves: "we are utterly lost," and the threat is against "us." When Leucon takes the news to Habrocomes, he will beg him to save them all (2.4.2). For Manto's love Rhode uses the phrase the narrator gave Corymbus, σφοδρὸν ἔρωτα, "a fierce love" (1.14.7); it comes once more, for Moeris, the man Manto will marry, when he falls in love with Anthia (2.11.1).
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