Essays on the Greek Romances

BY ELIZABETH HAZELTON HAIGHT Professor Emeritus of Latin, Vassar College
NEW YORK LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO. M D CCCC XLIII
HAIGHT ESSAYS ON THE GREEK ROMANCES
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If all the world loves a lover, as the old proverb says, then this my book should win wide fame. For these Greek Romances of the first to the fourth century of our era seem still to be singing the immemorial refrain from the old spring-time song of “The Vigil of Venus”:
Cras amet qui numquam amavit,