1S98.] SMYTH — PERICLES AXD APOLLONIUS. 243 



Duplessis' catalogue cites a MS. in the library at Chartres (No. 

 419), '^ Lystoire de Apollonius qui apres les pestilences et fortunes 

 quil ot en merset ailleurs, fust roy de Antioche" (Duplessis, Catalog, 

 de la bibl. de Chartres, Chartres, 1840). 



I feel bound to mention the French translation {Apollonius de 

 Tyr'), by J. d'Avenel, Paris, Mortain, 1857. The translator says 

 (p. 3, footnote), " Notre traduction d 'Apollonius est, sauf erreur, 

 la premiere qui ait paru dans notre langue; nous reclamons done 

 pour elle I'indulgence du lecteur." It is milk for babes, all the 

 strong passages of the original carefully expunged. 



A manuscript of the French prose romance is in the British 

 Museum (Royal 20, C. ii). It is of the fifteenth century, on vel- 

 lum ; the preceding part of the MS. contains the prose romance of 

 Cleriadus and Meliadice. The general heading reads : '^ Cy com- 

 mence la cronique et histoire des mervuilleuses aventures de Appo- 

 lin Roy de Thir." It concludes : " Touttesfois tant comme il ves- 

 quit il fust Roy dantioce et de thir et de la terre des penthapolis et 

 de citrianne et de tarcye et en sou tempz les tint en bonne paix. 

 Puis fist escripre ses adventures et le mist en vi lieux dont lun fist 

 mettre en la terre des effes [Ephesians] Et laultre au temple de 

 dyane Et laultre en anthioce Et laultre en cytrianne [cyrene] Et 

 laultre en tarcye Et laultre a thir Ainsi est finee listore et cronique 

 de appolin de Thir. "^ 



A French translation of the fifteenth century, Le Violier des his- 

 toires Roinaines, is republished in the Bibliotheque Elzeviriennej 

 under the title ''Le Violier des histoires Romaines, Ancienne tra- 

 duction frangaise des Gesta Romanorum, Nouvelle edition, revue 

 et annotee. Par M. G. Brunet, Paris, 1858 (chapter 125). It re- 

 sembles the Gesta Romanorum, but occasionally points to another 

 source. Singer cites (p. 108) several passages in which the text 

 agrees rather with the Historia and with Steinhowel than with the 

 Gesta. 



Modern Greek Versions. 



As the Greek original of the saga is lost, peculiar interest attaches 

 to the medieval Greek versions. The hero, after having traveled so 

 far from the East, returns in the circle of romance and appears twice 

 in a Greek garb. '' Damals kehrte die Erzahlung vom Abendlande 



' Another MS. which Singer has collated is in the Imperial Library at Vienna 

 (No. 3428). 



