Leucippe and Clitophon

"The description of their shipwracke, how Menelaus was cast on shore at Paralia, and how both the Lovers were driven on the coast of Pelusium: of their going towardes Alexandria, and how they were taken by theeves: the manner of their delivery from them: with their entertainment of Charmides: a cunning shift devised by Menelaus and Clinias, to save Leucippe which was appointed to bee sacrificed: the merry meeting againe of all these friendes, with the discourse of their daungers."

"Charmides Generall of the army, falleth in love with Leucippe: he declare[t]h it to Menelaeus, craving his helpe therein: Leucippe falleth madde: Charmides by a notable stratageme of the theeves, with all his army was slaine: Leucippe is cured againe by Chaerea."

"In this fift Booke is set foorth the rape of Leucippe by Cherea: the love of Melite towards Clitiphon: their sayling to Ephesus: After it sheweth how Sosthenes the steward of Melite, bought Leucippe of a Merchant which had redeemed her from Pyrates: how shee under the name of Lacena, unknown of Clitiphon, perceiveth his love to Melite: The returning home of Thersander Melites husband, whom she long since had thought to have perished in shipwracke."

"Annibale della Croce (Lyons, 1544) — last four books, into Latin"

"Angelo Coccio (Venice, 1550) — into Italian"

"As soon as I had seen her, I was lost. For Beauty’s wound is sharper than any weapon’s, and it runs through the eyes down to the soul. It is through the eye that love’s wound passes, and I now became a prey to a host of emotions: admiration, amazement, trembling, shame, shamelessness. I admired her generous stature, marveled at her beauty, trembled in my heart, stared shamelessly, ashamed I might be caught. My eyes defied me. I tried to force them away from the girl, but they swung back to her, drawn by allure of her beauty, and finally they were victorious."