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for Greek color and allusions in the earliest Latin versions and 

 have found sufficient to justify Teuffel's conclusion that the original 

 author was a pagan Greek from Asia Minor (" Der Verfasser dessel- 

 ben war vielleicht aus dem griechischen Klein-Asien und noch 

 Heide," J^k. Mus., xxvii, 104). Teuffel adds (id., 103), '*das 

 christliche Gewand ist dem Stoffe erst von dem Uebersetzer lassig 

 umgeworfen." A list of the graecisms may be found in Riese, ed. 

 1 87 1 (xi-xiii). Haupt denied the Greek origin, but was confuted 

 by Rohde. See Thielmann, Ueber Sprache und Kritik des lat. 

 Apollonius Ro7nanSy Speier, 1881, for arguments for the Latin origin 

 of the story. ^ 



There is a singular relationship which cannot be explained as an 

 accidental coincidence between the Apollonius and the Greek 

 sophistic romance of Antheia and Habrokomes, of Xenophon of" 

 Ephesus — Xenophontis Ephesii Ephesiacorum, libri V, de Amori- 

 bus Anthiee et Abrocomae nunc primum prodeunt .... cum 

 Latina interpretatione A. Cocchii, London, 1726.- 



Antheia and Habrokomes meet in the Temple of Diana, are mar- 

 ried, but in obedience to an oracle of Apollo are forced to travel. 

 They become separated and A. falls into the hands of robbers, 

 from whom she is rescued by Perilaus, a young nobleman. A. 

 consents to marry him but, on the eve of the marriage, swallows a 

 sleeping potion which she had secured from a physician, a friend of 

 Perilaus, to whom she has confided her story.* She is lamented as 

 dead, and is conveyed to a sepulchre. She awakens in the tomb 

 which is plundered by pirates for the sake of the treasure it con- 

 tains. 



The bold outlines of the narrative are common to both the 



^ Cf. E. Klebs, Phil, 47, 80, for evidence that the story is a version of a pagan 

 Latin work of the third century. 



2 Cf. Dunlop History of Prose Fiction London, 1888, Vol. i, pp. 61-63. 

 Angelo Poliziano mentions the Ephesian History — I(pz(nay.d to. Kara ''AyOiav 

 tai ^AiSpoKo/irju — in his Liber. MiscelL, li. It w^as translated into Italian in 

 1723. There are two other Xenophons nearly contemporary — X. Antiochenus 

 and X. Cyprius. 



'Douce ("Illustrations") observed that these incidents resemble the leading 

 adventure of Romeo and Juliet though he admits that Xenophon's work 

 was not translated nor published when Luigi da Porto wrote the novel La Gin- 

 lietta on which Shakespeare's play is based. The story was everywhere popular. 

 Lopez de Vega wrote a play upon it — Los Castelvines y Monteses. 



