1898.] SMYTH — PERICLES AND APOLLONIUS. 247 



Kontiani to be derived from Kofi-qq (Coiite), an Italian title intro- 

 duced by the Venetians who then held Crete, and have believed 

 that the writer therefore belonged to the Western Catholic Church. 

 But this supposition is confuted by Koraes, in his Atacta, Vol. ii, 

 prolegomena, p. 13, where he shows that " Gabriel " clearly points 

 to the Oriental Church. 



Russian Versions. 



In Russian literature the story of Apollonius is derived from the 

 Russian translation of the Gesta Romanorum^ which in turn rests 

 upon the Polish rendering of the Gesta. G. Polivka, of all the 

 Russian scholars, has studied the subject most closely. In the Lisiy 

 filologicke^ 1889, 353~35S ^"d 416-435, he demonstrated the rela- 

 tions of the Russian and Polish versions of the Gesta, and discussed 

 the curious Bohemian version of the Apollo7iius. In the Drobne 

 prispevky liter drne historicke (brief literary notes), Prague, 1891, he 

 compared the Gesta Romanorum and the Tichonravov texts, but 

 came to no positive conclusions. Dr. Murko, of Vienna, was of the 

 opinion that the Tichonravov text was only a careful treatment by a 

 Moscow scholar of the White Russian Rimskija Dejanija. In 1892 

 he contributed to the Archiv fiir Slavische Philologie (14: 405), a 

 careful paper entitled, '^ Die russische Uebersetzung des Apollonius 

 von TJ'r/zi'und der Gesta Romanorum.^ ^ For the Tichonravov text, 

 see Letopisi russkoj literatury (chronology of Russian literature), 

 1859, and Russkij folol Vestnik (1891, Part ii, p. 314); for the 

 Rimski/a Dejanija, see Obscestvo Ijubitelej drevnej pismennosti (St. 

 Petersburg, No. 117). A selection of stories from the Rimskija 

 Dejanija was made and published at Cracow by Siekielowicz in 

 1663, and this collection was translated from Polish into Russian 

 ''in the summer of 7199" (that is, of the Byzantine era = 1691 



A.D.). 



The Bohemian folk-book, to a description of which we shall 

 arrive later, is entitled Kro7iyka o Apollonwi Krali Tyrskem, W. 

 Gindrichowe Hradcy, 1733. ^^ was reprinted, Olomanci, 1769, and 

 Praze, 1761. See Dobrowsky, Geschichte d. Rohm. Sprache, p. 303. 

 It is also printed direct from the MSS. by A. J. Vrt'atko, Casopis 

 Musea Ceskeho, 1863. 



The Story in English. 

 We have now spoken of the story as it appears in Germany, Den- 

 mark, Sweden, Holland, Italy, Spain, France, Hungary, Greece, 



