Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste  

"Indian literature indeed bears traces of Greek influence subsequent to the expedition of Alexander, and there is sparing indication of the inverse. See, however, note on Heliodorus. Dunlop cites but two works, those of Clearchus and Antonius Diogenes, in support of his assertion. Opinions differ widely upon the Erotica of Clearchus. By some it is considered to have been a philosophic treatise upon love, by others a romance, by others a collection of short erotic tales. Antonius Diogenes flourished probably considerably after the commencement of the Christian era, and not earlier than the end of the second century, according to Passow (in Ersch and Gruber's " Encyclop."). His work, moreover, exhibits no special indication of Eastern influence. " --History of Fiction (1814) by John Colin Dunlop