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



with a book which is certainly by him, entitled : ''Ez vilagi nagy 

 soc ziir zavarrol valo Enek " (a song of the great tangle of the 

 world). 



The title of the book, according to Szabo Karoly, is Szep Chron- 

 ica mikeppen az Apolionius nevo Kirdlyfi egy Mesenec meg feytese- 

 vegett ellmjdosiidn^ Az Tengeren mtftdeneket eluesztuen Halasz ruh- 

 aban Altisirates Kiraly udvardban juta^ melynec Leanya a szep Lu- 

 cina aszszony az Kiraly fit meg szeretuen hozza mene. JSs jnikeppen 

 az Apollo7iius az Kiraly sdgra haza menuen, az Tengeren Feleseget 

 £S Lednydt el veszte es mikeppen oket soc eszledo mulua nagy orommel 

 egessegben taldld. Most vyionnan, az Lucretia notaydra Magyar 

 njelvre forditatot, es meg nyo7ntattatot, Colosvdrat azohvdrban 1591, 

 Esztendoben (A pretty story concerning Prince Apolionius who 

 having solved a riddle was forced to wander. Having lost every- 

 thing at sea, he arrived in fisher's garb at the court of King Altis- 

 trates, whose daughter, the beautiful Lucina, fell in love with him 

 and married him ; and how Apolionius returning home across the 

 ocean lost his wife and daughter, and how, after many years, he 

 found them again in good health. Now again, after the aria of Lu- 

 cretia, translated into Hungarian, and printed in the year 159 1). 



There are other publications of the story in 1722, 1741, 1751 ; 

 five editions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries without 

 hint of place or date, but all probably printed at Buda-Pesth. The 

 1 75 1 copy has for title, '' Igen szep chronica Apolionius nevii Kiraly 

 firol, mikeppen egy mesenek meg-fejteseert elbujdosvan az tengeren 

 mindeneket el vesztven. Halasz ruhaban Altistratus Kiraly Udvar- 



abanjuta Nota: sokeros vitezek, bolksek." Esler Marton, 



1 75 1 (A beautiful story of a Prince Apolionius who having 

 solved a riddle wanders abroad ; having lost all upon the sea, he ar- 

 rives, clad as a fisher, at the court of King Altistrates Song : 



Many strong knights, wise ones, etc. Esler Martin, 1751). 



The poem consists of 202 stanzas of nine lines each, of which 

 the third, sixth and ninth lines rhyme, and the others are without 

 rhyme. The source of the story is the Gesta Romanorufu. 



Italian Versions. 



A MS. of the middle of the fourteenth century is preserved in the 

 Biblioteca Nazionale of Turin. The story occupies the entire Codex 

 N.V. 6 (Pasini, cci. 1. i. 97). It consists of twenty-eight leaves 



