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



The name of the author or transcriber has also set the editors 

 guessing. M. Sathos says that the translation of the poem into Greek 

 was made by Constantinos Temenos, a Cretan (^K(i}v<$Tw^rho<s Ti/ievo? 

 xpij^ ^gn^oupyrjffsv 7) [xdXXov fxericppaaev h erst 1500 rd xard rd> iv zupoj 

 ^AnoXXai'^io, etc.; cf. Neo iX?.7]'>ixi) ^doXoyia, p. 230). Wagner puzzles 

 over Sathos for awhile and decides that he does not know the rea- 

 sons for the statement. The reason is to be found in Sathos' ignor- 

 ance. He has mistaken the Cretan word dep-ho (^composed') for a 

 proper name !^ 



But it is time to consider the text itself. It begins : 

 ^ATtoXXib'^w^ ro> h Tbpoj. '^Frj/idda, d^oij^ iwerirjffi'^, ^77^t Ilapd 

 Ayj/xTjzptw 0£o8u(TC(p T(p i^ '/a>avv:'vwv. Con Licenza de superiori. 

 Inc. p. 3 : Mk du'^av too ^Irjffoo Xptarou, otz' oXot TzpoffxovoufiSy Tia.'jd. poo 

 ScLXTTj du'^a/xr^j Xoyo'j^ xaXo'J vd Tzoops, — Klav iatpaXa xaX rcTZore? a9 £v 

 (Topna^yjpivu, FtarT exapa to xdreya^ xai toy a pa^^vjpjvo, p. 71. 

 The first two pages form an introduction on the part of the 

 author. He invokes the help of Jesus Christ, attributes every 

 event to Providence, justifies his attempt to have put into verse the 

 story /le had read so?fiewhere and excuses himself for any mistakes 

 committed on his part. The story begins on the first line of the third 

 page and goes on to p. 69. The last eight verses of pp. 70, 71 state 

 the Christian name of the author to be Constantine ; his family 

 name is omitted. It is distinctly stated that the poem was concluded 

 at Canea in Crete on the first of January, 1500, the fete day of St. 

 Basilios. This statement, which has been consistently overlooked 

 by the historians, is in the following lines : 



'EreXeicDffa r'apyr^'jiaa pk too {j^soo ttjv ydprj, 



'9 Too<s y^iXioo<; Tzv^Taxoaioo<i, tqv pry^a'j tov yevdp-q. 



'2" TYjV TzpoiTT]'^ BaaiXetov re 'J^c'ov too npsffjSoTOOf 



e^9 ra Jia'^td Ppt(Tx6pevo($ el<; to vt^di ttjv KpTJTT]. 



I]ot7]pa elv drto /stpo? KwvffTw^Tivoo (sic, K(o'^(TTd>Tioo?) dspivOj 



ytd vd pe paxapt^ooffiv d7iiJTri<$ dizod-aivo). 



Kidv taipaXa xai ti7:ot£<^ a? eV <Top.7:a^7jpi>o, 



yiaT). exapa to xd-Ttya xai Toya pa&rjpi\>o. 



Finally in regard to the name of the author, Wagner entertains 

 in his second hook {Car mina) ** grave suspicions" that Gabriel 

 Contiani is not the name of the poet, but only of the copyist, in 

 which for once he is right. Some commentators have supposed 



^ Numerous scholars, even the latest, S. Singer, have repeated the error. 



