1898.] SMYTH — PERICLES AND APOLLOXIUS. 229 



lesen Vdr Jam durcJi D. Gotfrid von Viterb. im late in 



beschrieben. Nachnialn inns Tents ch verwendet. IS 40, Augsburg, 

 H. Steyner. And again, Ein schone History AppoIo7iius, wie er von 

 seinem Landt vertrieben, schiffbruch und mancJierlei U7iglilck erlitten, 

 und dock endlich durch Gliick wider in sein Landt kommen ist. 

 Augsburg, 1556} 



Steinhowel fixes the date of the reign of Apollonius with great 

 care : — 



" Das ist ain Vorred in die hystorie des KUniges Appolonii das 

 man wisse wen er geregnieret hab." 



He arrives at the proper period by a gradual descent from Eden 

 and the flood to the fall of Troy, the building of Rome, the divi- 

 sion of the world after the death of Alexander, etc. 



There is a mild pathos and humor in the author's personal re- 

 miniscence and profession : 



" Ett ichs geton sumnus bass 

 Ain rapp singt all zeit eras eras eras, 

 In soliehem gsang han ich gelebt 

 Nun und viertzig iar in Hoftnung gewebt 

 Ruwiger als vergangen Zeitt 

 leh gedaeht allweg bis morn beitt 

 Cumst du dannoeht gelernen wol 

 Usz dem bleib ich an kiinsten vol." 



After settling the time of the reign, the translator enters upon a 

 ■description of the incest, in which he closely resembles Wynkyn de 

 Worde(i5io). Apollonius guesses the king's riddle, whereupon 

 Antiochus lies angrily saying that his solution ^'in no way answers 

 the question." When Apollonius reaches home he looks in his 

 books and finds that in all things he has answered the king aright. 

 He departs from Tyre in the middle hour of the night, unknown to 

 all the citizens. When his flight is discovered there is great sad- 

 ness, no dancing, no marriages — " alle tabernen waren beschlossen. 

 Elemitus (Hellenicus) is the bearer of the warning to Apollonius. 

 The prince relieves the distress of Tarsus with 100,000 measures of 

 wheat, declines compensation, and the grateful burghers erect a 

 statue of him with corn in his right hand and his left foot spurning 

 gold. The king's daughter in this version is called Cleopatra;^ 



1 Grasse, Tresor de livres rares et precieux,'\, 165; Grasse, Lehrbiich einer 

 allgemeinen Literdrgeschichte , ii, 3: 459, 460. 



^ She is called " Camilla" in two Latin MSS., Vienna 362 and Vienna 510, (ssec 

 xiii), and the daughter of Antiochus is called in them Creusa. 



