Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 2.5.3 · 2.5.3
The letter reaches Habrocomes
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Ταῦτα τὰ γράμματα λαβοῦσα καὶ κατασημηναμένη δίδωσι θεραπαίνῃ τινὶ ἑαυτῆς βαρβάρῳ, εἰποῦσα Ἁβροκόμῃ κομίζειν· ὁ δὲ ἔλαβε καὶ ἀνέγνω καὶ πᾶσι μὲν ἤχθετο τοῖς ἐγγεγραμμένοις, μάλιστα δὲ αὐτὸν ἐλύπει τὰ περὶ τῆς Ἀνθείας.
She took this letter, sealed it, and gave it to one of her own maids, a foreigner, telling her to take it to Habrocomes. He took it and read it. Everything written in it troubled him, but the part about Anthia pained him most of all.
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Book 2, chapter 5. Manto seals her letter and sends it to Habrocomes.
A note on this passage
κατασημηναμένη, "sealing it," is the last step in sending a letter: the writer closed it and pressed a seal on it, so that only the person it was meant for would open it. The maid who carries it is βάρβαρος, the Greek word for anyone who did not speak Greek; the narrator has used it of Manto too, "the barbarian woman" whose anger Rhode fears (2.3.5). What pains Habrocomes most is "the part about Anthia," Manto's plan to get rid of his wife (2.5.2).
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