Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 2.6.5 · 2.6.5
Anthia pleads for Habrocomes
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Ἐν τούτῳ ἡ Ἄνθεια προσπίπτει τοῖς γόνασι τοῦ Ἀψύρτου καὶ ἐδεῖτο ὑπὲρ Ἁβροκόμου· ὁ δὲ ἀλλὰ καὶ μᾶλλον ἔφη διὰ σὲ κολασθήσεται, ὅτι καὶ σὲ ἠδίκησε, γυναῖκα ἔχων ἄλλης ἐρῶν. Καὶ τότε ἐκέλευσε δήσαντας αὐτὸν ἐγκαθεῖρξαί τινι οἰκήματι σκοτεινῷ.
Meanwhile Anthia fell at the knees of Apsyrtus and begged him for Habrocomes. But he said: "On the contrary, he will be punished even more because of you, since he has wronged you too: he has a wife, and he loves another woman." And then he ordered them to bind him and shut him up in a dark room.
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Book 2, chapter 6. Anthia, also a slave in Apsyrtus' house, has been watching.
A note on this passage
Apsyrtus believes Manto's claim that Habrocomes said he loved her (2.5.7), and so he finds a second crime: a married man in love with another woman has wronged his wife. The verb is ἀδικέω, "to wrong," and Habrocomes used it himself when Manto's offer was first brought to him: "I would never willingly be persuaded to wrong Anthia" (Ἄνθειαν ἀδικῆσαι, 2.4.4).
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