{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0641.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0641.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0641.tlg001.local001","title":"Τὰ κατὰ Ἀνθίαν καὶ Ἁβροκόμην","titleGreek":"Τὰ κατὰ Ἀνθίαν καὶ Ἁβροκόμην","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Xenophon of Ephesus","authorityName":"XENOPHON Scr. Erot.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0641-xenophon/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0641-xenophon/","editors":["Rudolf Hercher"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Erotici Scriptores Graeci","edition":null,"publisher":"Teubner","place":"Leipzig","date":"1858","volume":"1","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["Google Digital Humanities Awards Program"],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[{"role":"Published original versions of the electronic texts","names":[]},{"role":"Senior Software Developer","names":[]},{"role":"Digital Editor","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Programmer","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_U5a2is9oylUC/page/n391","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Xenophon Of Ephesus. Τὰ κατὰ Ἀνθίαν καὶ Ἁβροκόμην. ed. Rudolf Hercher. Erotici Scriptores Graeci, Leipzig, Teubner, 1858. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0641.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"Ἦν ἐν Ἐφέσῳ ἀνὴρ τῶν τὰ πρῶτα ἐκεῖ δυναμένων, Λυκομήδης ὄνομα. Τούτῳ τῷ Λυκομήδει ἐκ γυναικὸς ἐπιχωρίου Θεμιστοῦς γίνεται παῖς Ἁβροκόμης, μέγα τι χρῆμα κάλλους οὔτε ἐν Ἰωνίᾳ οὔτε ἐν ἄλλῃ γῇ πρότερον γενομένου. Οὗτος ὁ Ἁβροκόμης ἀεὶ μὲν καὶ καθʼ ἡμέραν εἰς κάλλος ηὔξετο, συνήνθει δὲ αὐτῷ τοῖς τοῦ σώματος καλοῖς καὶ τὰ τῆς ψυχῆς ἀγαθά· παιδείαν τε γὰρ πᾶσαν ἐμελέτα καὶ μουσικὴν ποικίλην ἤσκει, θήρα δὲ αὐτῷ καὶ ἱππασία καὶ ὁπλομαχία συνήθη γυμνάσματα. Ἦν δὲ περισπούδαστος ἅπασιν Ἐφεσίοις, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῖς τὴν ἄλλην Ἀσίαν οἰκοῦσι, καὶ μεγάλας εἶχον ἐν αὐτῷ τὰς ἐλπίδας ὅτι πολίτης ἔσοιτο διαφέρων. Προσεῖχον δὲ ὡς θεῷ τῷ μειρακίῳ· καί εἰσιν ἤδη τινὲς οἳ καὶ προσεκύνησαν ἰδόντες καὶ προσεύξαντο. Ἐφρόνει δὲ τὸ μειράκιον ἐφʼ ἑαυτῷ μέγα καὶ ἠγάλλετο μὲν καὶ τοῖς τῆς ψυχῆς κατορθώμασι, πολὺ δὲ μᾶλλον τῷ κάλλει τοῦ σώματος· πάντων δὲ τῶν ἄλλων, ὅσα δὴ ἐλέγετο καλά, ὡς ἐλαττόνων κατεφρόνει καὶ οὐδὲν…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0641.tlg001.local001/#tlg0641-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0641.tlg001.local001/#tlg0641-tlg001-local001-2"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0641.tlg001.local001/#tlg0641-tlg001-local001-3"},{"label":"Book 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0641.tlg001.local001/#tlg0641-tlg001-local001-4"},{"label":"Book 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0641.tlg001.local001/#tlg0641-tlg001-local001-5"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0641.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0641.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0641/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}