Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 2.6.3 · 2.6.3
A pitiful sight
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Ἦν δὲ τὸ θέαμα ἐλεεινόν· αἵ τε γὰρ *** τὸ σῶμα πᾶν ἠφάνιζον βασάνων ἄηθες ὂν οἰκετικῶν, τό τε αἷμα κατέρρει καὶ τὸ κάλλος ἐμαραίνετο.
It was a pitiful sight. For the (words lost) were ruining his whole body, which was not used to the tortures of slaves; the blood ran down, and his beauty was fading.
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Book 2, chapter 6. The slaves carry out Apsyrtus' orders.
A note on this passage
The dots after γάρ mark a gap: words are lost here in the only manuscript. The article αἵ is feminine plural, so the lost word was a feminine plural noun; μάστιγες, "whips," named in the section before, would fit. The sentence ends on κάλλος, the beauty that grew in Habrocomes day by day in the book's first lines (1.1.2), and on ἐμαραίνετο, "was fading," the verb Homer uses for a fire dying down (Iliad 9.212).
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