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{{Short description|Ancient Greek writer}}
{{distinguish|Gaius Considius Longus|Longus colli|Longus capitis|Longinus}}
{{Other uses|Longos (disambiguation){{!}}Longos}}
[[Image:Daphnis Chloe Cortot Louvre CC171.jpg|right|thumb|''Daphnis and Chloe'' by [[Jean-Pierre Cortot]]]]
'''Longus''', sometimes '''Longos''' ({{langx|el|Λόγγος}}), was the author of an [[ancient Greek novel]] or [[Hellenistic romance|romance]], ''[[Daphnis and Chloe]]''.  Nothing is known of his life; it is assumed that he lived on the isle of [[Lesbos]] (setting for ''Daphnis and Chloe'') during the 2nd century AD.

It has been suggested that the name Longus is merely a misinterpretation of the first word of ''Daphnis and Chloe'''s title ''Λεσβιακῶν ἐρωτικῶν λόγοι'' ("story of a Lesbian romance", "Lesbian" for "from [[Lesbos]] island") in the Florentine manuscript; EE Seiler observes that the best manuscript begins and ends with ''λόγου'' (not ''λόγγου'') ''ποιμενικῶν''.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OvcDAAAAQAAJ&q=seiler+longus+%CE%BB%CF%8C%CE%B3%CE%BF%CF%85&pg=PA341|title=Longi pastoralia|page=341|accessdate=24 February 2019|author1=Longus|year=1843}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NDBZAAAAcAAJ&q=longus+%CE%BB%CF%8C%CE%B3%CE%BF%CF%85+%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%BC%CE%B5%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%BA%E1%BF%B6%CE%BD&pg=PA154|title=Longi Pastoralia|page=154|accessdate=24 February 2019|author1=Longus|year=1829}}</ref> 

If his name was really Longus, he was possibly a [[Roman slavery|freedman]] of some Roman family which bore that name as a [[cognomen]].

==See also==
Other ancient Greek novelists:
* [[Chariton]] - The Loves of Chaereas and Callirhoe
* [[Xenophon of Ephesus]] - The [[Ephesian Tale]]
* [[Achilles Tatius]] - [[Leucippe and Clitophon]]
* [[Heliodorus of Emesa]] - [[Aethiopica|The Aethiopica]]

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Commons category inline|Longus}}
* {{Gutenberg author | id=38790}}
* {{Internet Archive author}}
* {{Librivox author |id=15488}}
* [http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/graeca/Chronologia/S_post02/Longos/lon_intr.html Longus at the Bibliotheca Augustana ]

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[[Category:Ancient Greek novelists]]
[[Category:2nd-century writers]]
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[[Category:People from ancient Lesbos]]