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Daphnis and Chloe. Love Romances and Poetical Fragments. Fragments of the Ninus Romance
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Longus, Parthenius, George Thornley (Translator)
Longus seems to have been a pagan sophist who lived about 200 CE; he is known to us only by his novel "Daphnis and Chloe." This is the bucolic story of two foundlings, brought up by goatkeepers and shepherds on the island of Lesbos, who gradually fall in love. Notable among ancient romances for its perceptive characterizations, "Daphnis and Chloe" ...
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