Longus's Daphnis and Chlo is a pastoral,—it would burn well.
Of his life we know nothing, and even his name--Longus--has been called in question.
Drama too had a definite influence on Longus, indeed the word δρᾶμα or δραματικόν is applied to these romances by Photius.
With this delightful prayer, our humorous nympholept Longus begins his story.
Calderini shows the various traces of the inspiration which Longus received from the Alexandrian idyl.
