text:  Though far inferior both in the delineation of the characters and the contrivance of the story to the _Ethiopics_ (from which indeed many of the incidents are obviously borrowed ) and not altogether free from passages offensive to delicacy "Clitophon and Leucippe" is well entitled to a separate notice not only from the grace of its style and diction and the curious matter with which the narrative is interspersed but from its presenting one of the few pictures which have come down to these times of the social and domestic life of the Greeks