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



nach dem griechischen Osten zurlick, wo langst jede Spur des alten 

 Originalwerks verloren gegangen war" (Krumbacher, ''Byzantini- 

 schen Litteraturgeschichte," in I. Miiller's Handbiich der Clas. Alfer- 

 tums-Wissenschaff, ix, pt. i, p. 434.) Both the Greek versions 

 are metrical. The older one is apparently of the end of the four- 

 teenth or the beginning of the fifteenth century. It has 857 un- 

 rhymed verses. It is in a Paris MS. (Codex Paris, grec 390), 

 described in the catalogue : ^' Narratio de Apollonio Tyrio e latina 

 lingua in grsecam conversa ; hie codex decimo quinto sseculo exaratus 

 videtur." It begins on fol. 149/^ and finishes i73(^ (see Chauvin, 

 les Roman. Grec, pp. 175-182). It is entitled MsrayXiuzTLffixa dizo 

 Aazivcxov ei^ "^PcofxaixoVf J[:jy7)(Ti(^ 7:oXu7zad^ov<$ ^AtzoXXcdvIoo tod rupou. It 

 is compared with the Latin version in a study by M. Gidel ('' Etude 

 sur Apollonius de Tyr," in Literarisches Centralblatt, 1871, No. 34, 

 p. 851). Much Christian comment is introduced into the pagan 

 story. The most complete studies of the Greek versions have been 

 made by Wilhelm Wagner, in two separate publications. His first 

 book is '' Medieval Greek Texts. Being a Collection of the Earliest 

 Compositions in Vulgar Greek, Prior to the Year 1^00. Edited, with 

 Prolegomena ana Ci'itical Notes, by Wilhelm Wagner. Part i. Lon- 

 don. Published for the Philological Society, by Asher&' Co., i8yo.^^ 

 His second book is " Carmina Grceca medii cevi. Edidit Gulielmus 

 Wagner, Lipsiae, 1874." ^tt. 2X^0 Etude sur Apol. d. Tyr. Roman 

 ecrit en Grec et en vers politique s d^ apres mie version Latine, M. C. 

 Gidel. 



Wagner believes the MS. of the earliest Greek text to belong to 

 the early fifteenth century, but Omant (the keeper of the MSS. in 

 the Paris Library) contends that it is not older than the sixteenth. 

 For the sources from which the MS. is derived, see L. Traube, 

 Neues Archiv d. Gesellschaftfilr dltere deutsche Geschichtskunde , v, 

 10 (1884), p. 382. 



The second Greek version belongs to the end of the fifteenth 

 century. It is a much fuller narrative than the first text and con- 

 tains 1894 rhymed verses (1838 in the Venice edition of 1778). It 

 appears in some editions (for it was a popular work and often re- 

 printed) to have been made by Gabriel Kontianos ; in others by 

 "Konstantin Temenos "^ (cf. Legrand, Bibliogr. hell, i (1885), 290). 

 It is entitled AirjyT^fft^ ajpatordrrj dTzoXXaj'^ioo rod tv ropoj. '^Fcp.dda, in 

 Venezia, per Messer Stefano da Sabio ad instantia di M. D'Amian 



1 See p. 246. 



