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“For our part, may the god grant us proper detachment in depicting the story of others.”
Longus (200–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Daphnis and Chloe, Proem, § 4 (tr. Jeffrey Henderson); cp. Paul Turner (1956): "But as for me, I hope that the god will allow me to write of other people's experiences, while retianing my own sanity.
“Ofter the Scaligers and Heinsius name, Aur Critick-Cæsars, who can raise thy fame, Great Sophist? unlesse Colledges, and the Pen Of all our best new University men, If yet in all their Libraries there be So much of the Arts left as to praise thee. Let them their Aristotle himself rehearse, And prove thy worth by Syllogisms in verse; And then Conclude, None truly can declare The Sophists praise but the great Sophister.”
Longus (200–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: James Wright, printed as an epigraph "Upon the Author" in Thornley (1657)