Daphnis and Chloe Quotes
Ancient Greek novels
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“He’s too poor even to keep a dog.”
“O: Olomucensis M 79 (XV) — gnomic excerpts”
“James Craggs, The Pastoral Amours of Daphnis and Chloe (1764)”
“V or B: Vaticanus Graecus 1348 (XVI) — mostly complete”
“C. V. Le Grice (Anonymous), Daphnis and Chloe: A Pastoral Novel (1803) — with omissions”
“Wikipedia: Daphnis and Chloe”
“F or A: Florentinus Laurentianus Conventi Soppressi 627 (XIII) — complete”
“On Lesbos while hunting I saw in a Nymphs’ grove a display, the fairest I ever saw: an image depicted, a story of love.”
“For there is no remedy for Love, no cure to be drunk or eaten or chanted in spells, save only kissing and embracing and lying down naked together.”
“The Pastorals of Longus Sophista, to my knowledge have bin signed with the Youthful Emeralds of some of our own, most excellent, sparky, astrall Wits.”
“He felt as though his life was still at the mercy of the pirates; for he was young and lived in the country and as yet knew nothing of the piracy of Love.”
“Paul Turner, Longus: Daphnis & Chloe (Penguin Classics, 1956)”
“Don't begin with the Leucippe and Clitophon and the Daphnis and Chloe, but read first the more serious works of the great age of Greek literature.”
“Ronald McCail, Longus: Daphnis and Chloe (Oxford World's Classics, 2002)”
“Moses Hadas, Three Greek Romances (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1953)”
“W. D. Lowe, The Story of Daphnis and Chloe (Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., 1908)”
“Annibale Caro, Amori pastorali di Dafni e Cloe (Parma, 1784, but written before 1538) — into Italian”
“Anonymous revision of Le Grice, Daphnis and Chloe: A Pastoral Romance (London: Vizetelly & Co., 1890)”
“The Athenian Society, Longus, Literally and Completely Translated from the Greek (Athens, 1896) — privately printed”
“Christopher Gill, in B. P. Reardon, ed. Collected Ancient Greek Novels (University of California Press, 1989)”