Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 2.9.1 · 2.9.1
Manto reaches Antioch
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Ὁ μὲν οὖν ἐν τῷ δεσμωτηρίῳ κατεκέκλειστο, ἡ δὲ Ἄνθεια εἰς Συρίαν ἤγετο καὶ ὁ Λεύκων καὶ ἡ Ῥόδη. Ὡς δὲ ἧκον οἱ περὶ τὴν Μαντὼ εἰς Ἀντιόχειαν (ἐκεῖθεν γὰρ ἦν Μοῖρις), ἐμνησικάκει μὲν Ῥόδην, ἐμίσει δὲ καὶ τὴν Ἄνθειαν.
So Habrocomes was shut up in the prison, while Anthia was being taken to Syria, and Leucon and Rhode with her. When Manto and her people reached Antioch (Moeris came from there), she bore a grudge against Rhode, and she hated Anthia too.
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Book 2, chapter 9. Manto, the pirate chief's daughter, has married Moeris, a Syrian, and is taking her new slaves with her to Syria.
A note on this passage
The story now runs on two tracks: ὁ μέν, "he," stays shut in at Tyre, and ἡ δέ, "she," is carried off to Syria, and the narrator will move between them like this until they meet again in Book 5. Manto's grudge against Rhode goes back to Tyre, where she made Rhode her go-between with Habrocomes and Rhode was slow to bring an answer (2.3.3–2.5.1). The verb, μνησικακέω, is literally "to remember wrongs." It was the word of the Athenian amnesty of 403 BC, when the citizens swore not to hold the civil war against one another (Xenophon of Athens, Hellenica 2.4.43).
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