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Longus, sometimes Longos (Greek: ΞΟΞ³Ξ³ΞΏΟ), was the author of an ancient Greek novel or romance, Daphnis and Chloe. Nothing is known of his life; it is sometimes assumed that he lived on the isle of Lesbos, the setting of his only known work, during the late 2nd or early 3rd century AD.
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βOfter the Scaligers and Heinsius name, Aur Critick-CΓ¦sars, who can raise thy fame, Great Sophist? unlesse Colledges, and the Pen Of all our best new University men, If yet in all their Libraries there be So much of the Arts left as to praise thee. Let them their Aristotle himself rehearse, And prove thy worth by Syllogisms in verse; And then Conclude, None truly can declare The Sophists praise but the great Sophister.β
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Longus, sometimes Longos (Greek: ΞΟΞ³Ξ³ΞΏΟ), was the author of an ancient Greek novel or romance, Daphnis and Chloe. Nothing is known of his life; it is sometimes assumed that he lived on the isle of Lesbos, the setting of his only known work, during the late 2nd or early 3rd century AD.