But otherwise we must come down to Lucian and the East before we find the faculty.

So, too, in Latin before the two late writers named above, Ovid is about the only person who is a real story-teller.

Virgil makes very little of his _story_ in verse: and it is shocking to think how Livy throws away his chances in prose.

No: putting the Petronian fragments aside, Lucian and Apuleius are the only two novelists in the classical languages before about 400 A.D.: and putting aside their odd coincidence of subject, it has to be remembered that Lucian was a Syrian Greek and Apuleius an African Latin.

The conquered world was to conquer not only its conqueror, but its conqueror's teacher, in this youngest accomplishment of literary art.
It was probably in all cases, if not certainly, mixed blood that produced the curious development generally called Greek Romance.