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his own daughter and she kills herself upon her mother's grave, and 

 is transformed into a pomegranate tree, and her father into a buz- 

 zard (see Grimm, Deut. Sagen, 483 (ii, 182), and Rohde, p. 420, 

 note, for references to Servian and Persian folk-tales).^ 



So much for Prof. Rohde's riddle-guessing. This much of good 

 is in it, that it has pointed out the incongruities and the weaknesses 

 of the tale as we have it. The whole episode of the first sojourn 

 at Tarsus might be spared, nor is there any explanation of the sud- 

 den departure for the Pentapolitan region of Cyrene. The words 

 of the author are '* Interpositis mensibus sive diebus paucis, hor- 

 tante Stranguillione et Dionysiade et premente fortuna ad Penta- 

 politanas Cyrenseorum regiones adfirmabatur navigare ut ibi latere 

 posset." The monument erected to ApoUonius is referred to by 

 Lycoris who advises Tharsia when in need to take refuge by the 

 statue of her father ; and Hellenicus, too, reappears at the end of 

 all to remind ApoUonius of his fidelity. 



The Antiquity of the Story. 



Moritz Haupt, of Berlin, wrote to Tycho Mommsen in 1857, 

 that he knew of more than one hundred manuscripts of the Latin 

 ApoUonius. They are widely distributed, a dozen MSS. are in Eng- 

 land, seven in Vienna (Nos. 226, 362,480, 510, 3126, 3129, 3332)^ 

 two in Breslau, three in Munich, and others in Paris, Rome,^ Stutt- 

 gart (fol. 411), Berne (228), Leipsic, Gottingen, Basle and Buda- 

 Pesth. The oldest is a Florentine Codex of the ninth or tenth 

 century. The earliest publication of the Latin text seems to have 

 been about 1470.' The unique copy of it in the Vienna Hofbiblio- 

 thek lacks the title page, and the volume remained undescribed until 



^ If the Latin scribe followed the opinion of Mallalas that Antioch was named 

 after the son of Seleucis, he may have had a dark recollection of that particular 

 Antiochus' love for his mother-in-law. 



2 O. Riemann has coliated two MSS. in Rome; the one is in the Minerva 

 Library (A. I., 21), the other in the Library of the Vatican (foundation of 

 Queen Christina, No. 905). Both are of the thirteenth century. The collation 

 of chapters 28-31 (where the Laurentian is at fault), is published in Revue de 

 Philoiogie, Tome vii, 1883 ("Note sur deux Manuscrits de l' Historia Apollonii 

 Regis Tyri). Still another MS. in the Vatican (7666) is described by Bethmann, 

 It is of the fifteenth century and resembles Sloan, 1619 (Cf. Pertz, Archiv 12: 

 402). 



'Riese says circa 147 1; Brunei " anterieure a 1480;" Grasse "vers 1470."' 

 See Hain, 1293. 



