"Day had begun to smile and the sun was shining upon the hilltops when a band of armed pirates scaled the mountain whi…"

"When once all hope is lost, desire is extinguished in the soul; and the impossibility of reckoning upon anything in t…"

"A lie is sometimes permissible, even praiseworthy, when it benefits those who tell it and does no harm to those who h…"

"And now is she my daughter with me here, my daughter I say, named by my name, and on her all my hopes depend. And bes…"

"But when rosy-fingered Dawn, the child of morning, appeared (as Homer would say), when from the temple of Artemis rod…"

"They instantly forgot their plight and clasped one another in a prolonged embrace so tight that they seemed to be of …"

"There are those perchance who will think but lightly of these imaginings: yet some folk deem a blood red rose, or a l…"

", An Æthiopian Historie (1587)"

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

"The Athenian Society, Heliodorus (The Aethiopica) (Athens, 1938)"