224 SMYTH — PERICLES AND APOLLONIUS. [Oct. 7,. 



The titles of Godfrey's chapters will be sufficient to indicate the 

 course of his narrative and its close parallel to the oldest Latin 

 MSS. 



1. De Apollonio rege Tyri et Sidonis, et de ejus infortunis atque 

 fortunis. 



2. De eodem Apollonio fugiente a facie Antiochi. 



3. Item de eodem Apollonio naufragium passo. 



4. Item de Apollonio, ubi suscepit eum rex Archistrates et dat 

 ei filiam suam. 



5. Item de Apol., ubi mortuo Antiocho ipse eligitur in imperium 

 Antiochise. 



6. Apol. tendit Antiochiam, sed uxor ejus in partu mortua pro- 

 jicitur in mare, 



7. Apol. reiicta filia in urbe Tharsia, pergit Antiochiam. 



8. Tharsia, filia Apollonii capitur a piratis et venditur lenoni 

 in civitate Militena. 



9. Tharsia venditur a piratis in urbe Militena ubi regnat Athena- 

 goras, qui saluat eam a Stupro. 



TO. Apol. pergit ab Antiochia in Tharsiam urbem requirere 

 Tharsiam filiam suam. 



11. Apol. recognoscit et recipit filiam suam in urbe Militena, 

 per regem Athenagoram. 



12. Tharsia recognoscitur a patre suo Apollonio. 



13. Apol. recipit filiam ignotam et fit leetitia magna in urbe 

 Militena. 



Apoolonius '[sic'] visitat socerum Archistratem. 



Godfrey's stanza consists of two rhyming hexameters and a pen- 

 tameter verse. For further editions of Godfrey, cf. Griisse, Tresor 

 de livres rares et precieux, iii, 100. 



It is said in the bibliographies of Apollonius that the story is 

 contained in Vincentius Bellovac, Speculum hystoriale, printed at 

 Augsburg in 1474, but after struggling patiently through the three 

 immense folios in the British Museum I must confess that I have 

 been unable to find the slightest trace of the romance. 



There are three main sources of the endless stories of Apollonius 

 in the Middle Ages. They are either founded upon the Latin His- 

 toria, or they proceed from Godfrey, or the Gesia Romanorum} 



1 Editions by Oesterley, 1872, and Keller, 1842. The Colmar MS. (fourteenth 

 century) is the only old MS. which contains the Apollonius. Cf. Wichert, 

 Zeitsch. f. dent. Geschichtsforschitng, vi. 



