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



Arnaud de Marsan a poet of Provence, about 1642, sings : 



" d'Apollonius de Tyr 

 Sapchatz contar e dire 

 Com el fos perilhat," etc. 



Toward the end of the thirteenth century the Provencal romance 

 of Flamenca contains, among other anonymous histories, V autre 

 cantava d'' Apolloine com si reiene Tyr de Sidoine. It is a narrative 

 poem in octosyllabic couplets, edited from the unique MS. at Car- 

 cassonne by Paul Meyer and translated into modern French (Paris, 

 1865) (see Francis Hueffer, The Troubadours^ 1878, p. 15). 



The story appears to have existed in the poetry of the trouba- 

 dours in the south of France, if we suppose Alphonse le Savant to 

 refer to the French ApoUotiius. 



« Y sin gobierno ni jarcia 

 Me pome por alta mar 

 Que asi ficiera Apolonio 

 Y yo fare otro que tal," 



And in the north of France it passed, as we have already seen, into 

 the vast orbit of the Carlovingian cycle. 



The old French prose version is contained in a little volume 

 printed at Geneva in 1482 (?). It is entitled ^^ Apollin roy de 

 Thire. Cy commence la cronicque et hystoire de Appollin roy de 

 thir et premiereinent danthiogus et de sa fille comment par luxure 

 il violla sa fille et comment il mourut meschamment par la fouldre 

 qui loccity Of this rare incunadulu7n, only two copies, so far as 

 I know, are known to exist ; one was purchased at the sale of Louis 

 Philippe's library in 1852, for about 1800 francs; the other is at 

 Sitten, in the library of the family of Lavallaz. 



A little later was published ^* Plaisant et agreable histoire a^Ap- 

 pollonius prince de Thyr en Affrique et Roi d* Aittioch traduite par 

 Gilles Corrozet, en ses jeune ans^^ (Paris, 1530). 



The story is found in Boisteau and Belleforest, Histoires tragi- 

 ques, Rouen, 1604, 7th vol., p. 113; and in the eighteenth cen- 

 tury it is entitled Les Aveniures d^ Apollonius de Thyr, par A. B. 

 (Ant. le Brun), Paris, 1710; Rotterdam, 1718 (?) ; Paris, 1797 (cf. 

 Nouvelle Bib I. d. Rom. Tom. i, p. i). 



It appears in classic French literature in Corneille's Theodore, 

 Vierge et Martyre, the scene of which is laid in Antioch in the reign 

 of Diocletian. 



