Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 2.9.2 · 2.9.2
Manto plans her revenge
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Καὶ δὴ τὴν μὲν Ῥόδην εὐθὺς μετὰ τοῦ Λεύκωνος κελεύει ἐμβιβάσαντάς τινας πλοίῳ ⟨ὡς⟩ πορρωτάτω τῆς Σύρων ἀποδόσθαι γῆς, τὴν δὲ Ἄνθειαν οἰκέτῃ συνουσιάζειν ἐνενόει καὶ ταῦτα τῶν ἀτιμοτάτων, αἰπόλῳ τινὶ ἀγροίκῳ, ἡγουμένη διὰ τούτου τιμωρήσεσθαι αὐτήν.
At once she ordered some men to put Rhode and Leucon on a ship and sell them as far away as possible from the land of the Syrians. As for Anthia, she planned to have her live with a slave, and one of the most despised at that, a rustic goatherd, thinking that in this way she would have her revenge on her.
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Book 2, chapter 9. In Antioch, Manto decides what to do with the three slaves her father gave her.
A note on this passage
Rhode and Leucon are to be sold ὡς πορρωτάτω, "as far away as possible." Greek puts ὡς before a superlative in this sense, and here the editor supplied the word, which is why it stands in brackets. They will be sold in Lycia, to an old man at Xanthus who keeps them like his own children (2.10.4). For Anthia, Manto's plan repeats two verbs from 2.5.5, where, refused by Habrocomes, she ἐνενόει, "considered," how she would punish (τιμωρήσεται) the man who scorned her; now both verbs are aimed at Anthia.
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