222 SMYTH — PERICLES AND APOLLONIUS. [Oct. T, 



voUbracht war und das Latein in den Karolingischen Schulen 

 ungetrlibt durch romanische Formen gelehrt ward, war zu so ganz 

 trivialen Bemerkungen wie sie jenes Verzeichniss enthalt ebensowe- 

 nig ein Anlass als sich gleichartige Beispiele finden " (Haupt^ 

 Opuscula, p. 13). The reference in the ^' De dubiis" reads 

 *' Gymnasium generis neutri sicut balneum in ApoUonio 'gymna- 

 sium patet.' " The . quotation is from the scene in Fenlapolis, 

 when the boys cry aloud, *' Audite, cives, audite, peregrini, ingenui 

 et servi, gymnasium patef ' (see Rh. Museum filr Philologies neue 

 Folge xxvi, S. 638-9, xxvii, 103-114). 



In chapter 34, forty aurii are considered more than a half libra 

 auri, yet not a whole one; that is, one pound of gold is coined into 

 fifty pieces, which coincides with the practice of the time after Cara- 

 calla.^ After Constantine it became customary to compute by solidi. 

 The oldest Latin version therefore would appear to have been 

 composed in the time between Caracalla and Constantine (see W. 

 Christ, Sitzungsderichfe d. Akad. d. Wissenchaft zu Milnchen Cl.y 

 1872, p. 4, and Marquardt Rom. Altertuin, iii, 2, 18, 24). 



As the translation was certainly made before the verses of Venan- 

 tius and the treatise *' De dubiis," it was as certainly made after 

 Symposius, whose riddles are inserted. The collection of riddles is 

 contained in many MSS. The oldest is the Codex Salmasianus, 

 belonging to the end of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth 

 century. The riddles themselves are of earlier date. Teuffel says : 

 " Etwa aus dem vierten bis fiinften Jahrhundert stammen wohl die 

 hundert Rathselgedichte des Symphosius. Sie bestehen je aus dret 

 Hexametern nebst einem ungeschickten Prolog. Sprache und Vers- 

 bau sind in reinem Geschmacke und zeigen den Verfasser als einen 

 Nachahmer des Ausonius," (Teuffel, p. 106 1, 3d ed.; see also 

 Douce, Illustrations of Shakespeare, 1807, ii, 135 ; and Riese, Zeit- 

 schriftfilr Oesireich. Gymn., xix, 1868, 483-500). 



From these arguments we may infer, as Velser, Fabricius^ and 

 Douce have done, that the original Latin text was compiled some 

 time in the fifth century. Teuffel says, 'Mn the course of the sixth 

 century," which agrees also with the general character of the Latin 



^ Haec dicens protulit XL Aureos et dedit in Manu virginis et dicit, etc 



cui juvenis ait " si salva sis, indica mihi, quantum dedit at te juvenis," etc 



Puella ait <' quater denos mihi Aureos dedit." Juvenis ait " Ma'um illi sit I quid 

 magnum illi fuisset, homini tarn diviti, si librom aiiri tibi daret integram ? Ut 

 ergo scias, me esse meliorem, tolle libram auri integram." (Riese, 1893, ?• 7')- 



- Fabricius, Bibliothecce Grtecce, Hamburg, 1721, 1. 5, c. 6. 



