Wood, fit for bridging, was often not to be had, and in such cases the only resource was to halt for the freshets to subsidea matter in the case of the headwaters of the Chariton, for instance, of over three weeks' delay.

Their way of treating love was followed in detail by the Roman poets, especially Ovid, Catullus, Propertius, and Tibullus, and by the Greek novelists, Xenophon Ephesius, Heliodorus, Achilles Tatius, Chariton, Longus, etc., up to the fourth or fifth centuries (dates are uncertain) of our era.

Nor need I dwell on the stories of Chariton, Xenophon of Ephesus, or the epic Dionysiaca of Nonnus, as they yield us no new points of view.

Hirschig's Scriptores Erotici begins with Parthenius and includes Achilles Tatius, Longus, Xenophon, Heliodorus, Chariton, etc.

Heliodorus supplies several episodes, and an acquaintance at least can be traced with both Achilles Tatius and Chariton.