Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 2.4.1 · 2.4.1
Leucon brings the news
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Ταῦτα εἰπὼν ἔρχεται πρὸς Ἁβροκόμην. Τῷ δὲ ἄρα οὐδὲν ἔργον ἦν ἢ φιλεῖν Ἄνθειαν καὶ ὑπʼ ἐκείνης φιλεῖσθαι καὶ λαλεῖν ἐκείνῃ καὶ ἀκούειν λαλούσης. Ἐλθὼν δὲ παρʼ αὐτοὺς τί ποιοῦμεν, σύντροφοι; Τί δὲ βουλευόμεθα, οἰκέται;
With these words he went to Habrocomes, who, as it happened, had nothing to do but kiss Anthia and be kissed by her, and talk to her and listen to her talk. Coming up to them, Leucon said: "What are we to do, companions? What are we to plan, fellow slaves?"
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Book 2, chapter 4. In Tyre, Manto, the pirate chief's daughter, has fallen in love with Habrocomes and threatened his two slaves, and Leucon has just told Rhode that he will deal with it.
A note on this passage
Leucon calls the couple by two names. σύντροφοι means "raised together": Rhode used it of the two of them a moment before (2.3.7), and the narrator calls her Anthia's σύντροφος (2.3.3). οἰκέται is the ordinary word for household slaves, used of Leucon and Rhode when Apsyrtus took them (2.2.3). Leucon now says it to the couple he served in Ephesus, and his verbs say "we": in Tyre all four of them belong to Apsyrtus.
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