Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 2.7.1 · 2.7.1
In prison while Manto marries
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Καὶ ὁ μὲν ἐδέδετο καὶ ἦν ἐν εἱρκτῇ, δεινὴ δὲ αὐτὸν ἀθυμία καταλαμβάνει καὶ μάλιστα ἐπεὶ Ἄνθειαν οὐχ ἑώρα· ἐζήτει δὲ θανάτου τρόπους πολλούς, ἀλλ’ εὕρισκεν οὐδένα, πολλῶν τῶν φρουρούντων ὄντων. Ὁ δὲ Ἄψυρτος ἐποίει τῆς θυγατρὸς τοὺς γάμους καὶ ἑώρταζον πολλαῖς ἡμέραις.
So Habrocomes was bound and in prison, and a terrible despair came over him, most of all because he could not see Anthia. He looked for many ways of dying, but found none, because there were many guards. Apsyrtus, meanwhile, held his daughter's wedding, and they feasted for many days.
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The setting
Book 2, chapter 7. On Apsyrtus' orders Habrocomes has been bound and shut in a dark room.
A note on this passage
Joseph's story in Genesis runs the same course after the false charge: his master "put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound" (Genesis 39:20). Joseph's way out begins with the dreams he reads in that prison (Genesis 40–41), and Habrocomes, too, will dream in his cell in the next chapter (2.8.2).
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