2898.] SMYTH — PERICLES AND APOLLONIUS. 221 



his account of Sloan 1619, in Rh. Mus. 1872, p. 103). Haupt 

 also believed the Velser codex to be preferable to those out of 

 which Riese composed his first edition. And Velser's Augsburg 

 MS. belonged very clearly to the same class as Sloan and Berne. 

 For proof that Velser's text was corrupted, cf. Riese, 1893, PP* ^^> 

 xii. 



The earliest reference to Apollonius that has been discovered is 

 in the sacred lyrics of Venantius Fortunatus,^ bishop of Poitiers, 

 (inter annos 566 et 568) where he compares his own sad, exiled 

 wanderings in Gaul with those of the shipwrecked Apollonius — 



*• Tristius erro niniis, patriis vagus exsul ab oris, 

 Quam sit Apolloniis naufragus hospes aquis." 



Another reference is found in the Gesta Abbatum Fontanellen- 

 sium, written about 750 A.D. In the thirteenth chapter, entitled 

 "Gesta Wandonis abbatis cornobii Fontanellensis," occurs the fol- 

 lowing : ** Wando presbyter a patre Baldrico nomine progenitus ter- 

 ritorio Tellau ortus, regimen assumpsit cornobii ab anno dominicae 

 incarnationis 742." Among the books belonging to this abbot is 

 cited, ''Item historiam Apollonii regis Tyri in codice uno " (see 

 Monumenia Gerttianice historica, edidit G. H. Pertz. Scriptorum. 

 Tomus ii, Hannover, 1829, p. 287). 



A still earlier reference than the former is in " Tractat de dubiis 

 nominibus," a grammatical index found in a Vienna MS. of the 

 seventh century. The latest writer cited in it is the poet Dynamius, 

 a Gaul of the sixth century.' It seems clearly made out that the 

 '' index " was compiled in the Merovingian times, or, as Haupt says, 

 **In einer Zeit wo im Uebergang des Lateins in die romanischen 

 Sprachen durch Erhebung der Accusative zu Nominativen und durch 

 andere Vermischungen und Entstellungen von denen besonders Ur- 

 kunden vielfache Beispiele darbieten, das Geschlecht der Worterun- 

 kenntlich wurde, spater als die romanische Sprachniedersetzung 



^ Venantius Fortunatus, Miscellanea Lib. vi, cap. 10, hnes 5 and 6. The 

 lines are cited as above in Migne's Patrologice T. 88, and Migne reprints the best 

 edition of Fortunatus, that of the Benedictine, Mich. Ang. Luschi. Luschi no- 

 tices the variants " Apollonius" and " Apollonia," but prefers " Apolloniis," as 

 above, Fortunatus is venerated in the diocese of Poitiers as a saint, his feast 

 being celebrated December 14. 



- Dynamius, Governor of Marseilles, was born at Aries, and lived at the end 

 of the sixth century. See Moreri, Diet. Hist., 1725, iii, 646, and Biographie Uni- 

 verse lie, Vol. 12. 



