"Raffaele Colombani, Longi pastoralium, de Daphnide & Chloë, Juntine ed. (Florence, 1598) — '"

"On Lesbos while hunting I saw in a Nymphs’ grove a display, the fairest I ever saw: an image depicted, a story of love."

"This will cure him that is sick, and rouse him that is in dumps; one that has loved, it will remember of it; one that…"

"It was the beginning of spring, and all the flowers were blooming in the woods and meadows, and on the mountains. The…"

"What her passion was she knew not, for she was but a young girl and bred up among clowns, and as for love, had never …"

"There's something wrong with me these days, but I don't know what it is. I'm in pain, and yet I've not been injured. …"

"He’s too poor even to keep a dog."

"Chloe waited no longer but, partly because she was pleased by the compliment and partly because she had been wanting …"

"By mid-day their eyes would have been taken prisoner. For seeing Daphnis naked, Chloe would be suddenly overpowered b…"

"Rowland Smith, The Greek Romances of Heliodorus, Longus and Achilles Tatius, Bohn's Library (London, 1848)"