Note 254 — Chapter XXII · HERO AND LEANDER.
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It is not only in Musæus that we trace a fascination comparable to that of autumn tints in trees. The description by Ausonius of Love caught and crucified in the garden of Proserpine, which contains the two following lines,
Inter arundineasque comas gravidumque papaver Et tacitos sine labe lacus sine murmure rivos,
might be quoted as an instance of the charm. Indeed, it pervades the best Latin poetry of the silver age, the epistles of Philostratus, many of the later Greek epigrams, and all the Greek romances, with Daphnis and Chloe at their head.