Read the _Adventures of Clitophon and Leucippe_ by Achilles
Tatius, of Alexandria,[464] in eight books. It is a dramatic work,
introducing some unseemly love episodes. The diction and composition
are excellent, the style distinct, and the figures of speech,
whenever they are employed, are well adapted to the purpose. The
periods as a rule are aphoristic, clear and agreeable, and soothing
to the ear. But the obscenity and impurity of sentiment impair
his judgment, are prejudicial to seriousness, and make the story
disgusting to read or something to be avoided altogether. Except for
the names of the characters and his abominable indecency, the story,
in method of treatment and invention, has a great resemblance to the
_Aethiopica_ of Heliodorus.