text: " This last denunciation of the patriarch however is somewhat too sweeping and indiscriminate since though some passages are certainly indefensible they appear rather as interpolations and are in no manner connected with the main thread of the story the general tendency of which is throughout innocent and moral; and whatever may be said of these blemishes it must be allowed that the pages of Achilles Tatius are purity itself when compared with the depravity of Longus and some of his followers and imitators among the Greek romancists