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Ἀκούσας ὁ Ἄψυρτος καὶ δόξας ἀληθῆ λέγειν αὐτὴν ἠρεύνησε μὲν τὸ πραχθὲν οὐκέτι, μεταπεμψάμενος δὲ τὸν Ἁβροκόμην ‘ὦ τολμηρὰ καὶ μιαρὰ’ εἶπε ‘κεφαλή, ἐτόλμησας εἰς δεσπότας τοὺς σοὺς ὑβρίσαι καὶ διαφθεῖραι παρθένον ἠθέλησας οἰκέτης ὤν; ἀλλ̓ οὔτι χαιρήσεις: ἐγὼ γάρ σε τιμωρήσομαι καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις οἰκέταις τὴν σὴν αἰκίαν ποιήσομαι παράδειγμα.’ [2] Εἰπὼν οὐκέτι ἀνασχόμενος οὐδὲ λόγου ἀκοῦσαι ἐκέλευσε περιρρῆξαι τὴν ἐσθῆτα αὐτοῦ τοῖς οἰκέταις καὶ φέρειν πῦρ καὶ μάστιγας καὶ παίειν τὸ μειράκιον. [3] Ἤν [p. 352] δὲ τὸ θέαμα ἐλεεινόν: αἵ τε γὰρ... τὸ σῶμα πᾶν ἠφάνιζον βασάνων ἄηθες ὂν οἰκετικῶν, τό τε αἷμα κατέρρει καὶ τὸ κάλλος ἐμαραίνετο. [4] Προσῆγεν αὐτῷ καὶ δεσμὰ φοβερὰ καὶ πῦρ καὶ μάλιστα ἐχρῆτο ταῖς βασάνοις κατ̓ αὐτοῦ, τῷ νυμφίῳ τῆς θυγατρὸς ἐνδεικνύμενος ὅτι σώφρονα παρθένον ἄξεται. [5] 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.
Xenophon of Ephesus. Erotici Scriptores Graeci, Vol 1. Rudolf Hercher. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1858. Keyboarding.
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