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su partida para Roma . . . : llegose el dia de la partida, donde 

 hubo tiernas lagrimas j apretados abrazos j dolientes suspires, 

 etc." 



A common incident is that of tlie chance separation of hero 

 and heroine, or of the wanderers in general. In the classic epics, 

 however, there was a genuine tragic note in such episodes, as for 

 example in the separation of Hector and Andromache, or of Aeneas 

 and Creusa. The pathos of these events was of influence on the 

 earliest romances, but in the story ' of adventure not only the 

 protagonists, but groups of wanderers are sure to meet again, no 

 matter how often they are separated. This was a part of the 

 machinery of adventure to which the Aeneid contributed. Eneida, 

 Vol. I, p. 93 : "A Creusa perdi, mi dulce abrigo : | Oque el hado cruel 

 le echase mano, | O que el camino errase, o que cansada | Quedase, 

 ay triste, a descansar sentada; ] JSTo la vi mas, etc." Aeneas 

 searches for her everywhere : "Llevava firme intento de bolvernie | 

 A renovar mi acerba y dura suerte, | Y en los peligros otra vez 

 meterme, etc." ''Mil voces a Creusa llame en vano." Aeneas is 

 also separated from some of his companions during his peregrina- 

 tions (bk. I). 



Persiles, p. 562, col. 2 : "Andando mi Senora Auristela por la 

 ribera del mar, solazandose, . . . llegaron unos bajeles de 

 cosarios, y la robaron, etc."; p. 585, col. 1: "Llegose en esto la 

 noche, sin que la barca pudiese alcanzar al esquife, desde el cual 

 daba voces Auristela, llamando a su hermano Periandro, que la 

 respondia . . . Transila y Ladislao hacian lo mismo, y 

 encontrabanse en los aires las voces de dulcisimo esposo mio y 

 amada esposa mia, etc." On p. 608, Auristela is again carried off 

 and Periandro sets out in pursuit. 



Chance meetings and reunions are characteristic. At the close 

 of book I of the Aeneid, Aeneas again meets some of his stranded 

 companions whom a storm had carried off. In book III he finds 

 compatriots, Helenus, Andromache and others, in the course of his 

 peregrinations. In the Persiles these incidents are of frequent 

 occurrence. On p. 577, col. 1, Mauricio finds his daughter, 

 Transila; on p. 580, col. 2, Periandro and his group again meet 

 Arnaldo and his party; hero and heroine are separated and meet 

 again quite often ; p. 565, col. 2 : "suerte dichosa ha sido el hallarte, 

 etc."; also 592, col. 1. 

 Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. XIII. 37 April, 1908. 



