1898.] SMYTH — PERICLES AND APOLLONIUS. 223 



and especially with the peculiar use of dos in a sense opposite to the 

 Latin meaning, but peculiar to the German period = pretium puellae, 

 Muntschatz. (Teuffel, 481.) 



The Persistence of the Story. 



The ApoUonius Saga is remarkable for its persiste?ice and its sta- 

 bility, that is for its duration and vitality, and for its retention of 

 its original character and form. We will consider first lis persist- 

 ence. 



The remarkable number of MSS. attests the wide popularity of 

 the story before the introduction of printing. William, Bishop of 

 Tyre, in the twelfth century, in referring to his bishopric, testifies to 

 the fame of the romance — '' ex hac etiam et Hiram Salomonis co- 

 operator ad aedificium templi domini rex fuit et ApoUonius gesta 

 cujus celebrem et late vulgatam ha bent historia77iy About 1186 

 Godfrey of Viterbo related the story as authentic history in his 

 Pantheon, or Universal Chronicle (Pertz, Archiv v, 166; vii, 

 559), a sort of rhymed record of events from Adam to Godfrey. 

 The author was chaplain to Conrad III, Frederick I and Henry VI. 

 The principal MSS. of the work are Vienna 3406, and Paris 5003. 

 It has been printed in Ge7'ma?iicorum Scriptorum Tomus alter, ex 

 bibliotheca Joannis Pistorii Nidatii D. editio tertia curante B. G, 

 Struvio, RatisboncE, Sumptibus J. C. Peezii, 1726, pp. 1 75-181. 



Godfrey's Pantheon is an important monument and deserves 

 more particular attention. My study is based upon a copy in my 

 own possession. It is a ponderous folio with the title : Pantheon sive 

 Uftiversitatis Libri qui Chronici appellantur, xx, omnes omnium 

 secular um et geiitium, tarn sacras quam prophanas Historias com- 

 plect entes : per V. C. Basilice ex officifta /acobi Parci (1559). It is 

 dedicated to Pope Urban III (i 185-1 187). 



After a description of Rome and Carthage, of Asdrubal and 

 Hannibal, we arrive at the subject of our story, in column 282 — 

 ^' His temporibus ApoUonius rex Tyri et Sidonis ab Antiocho 

 juniore Seleuco rege a regno Tyri et Sidonis fugatur : qui navigio 

 fugiens, mira pericula patitur." Gower explicitly says that he de- 

 rived the story as narrated in Confessio Amantis from these chap- 

 ters of the Pantheon. 



" Of a cronique in dales gon 

 The wich is cleped Panteon 

 In loves cause I rede thus." 



PKOC. AMEK. PHILOS. SOC. XXXVII. 158. O. PRINTED DEC. 15, 1898. 



