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492 But in the, the princess at entering the royal hall, kisses all the knights and lords present, except the stranger. Vossius says, that about the year 1520, one Alamanus Rinucinus, a Florentine, translated into Latin this fabulous history; and that the translation was corrected by Beroaldus. Vossius certainly cannot mean that he translated it from the Greek original."—.

"The history of, was supposed by Mark Welser, when he printed it in 1595, to have been translated from the Greek a thousand years before [Fabr. Bib. Gr. v. 6. p. 821.] It certainly bears strong marks of a Greek original, though it is not (that I know) now extant in that language. The rythmical poem, under that title in modern Greek, was retranslated (if I may so speak) from the Latin απο Λατινικης εις Rωμαϊκην γλοωσσαν. Du Fresne, Index Author, ad. Gloss. Græc. When Welser printed it, he probably did not know that it had been published already (perhaps more than once) among the . In an edition, which I have, printed at Rouen in 1521, it makes the 154th chapter. Towards the latter end of the xiith century, Godfrey of Viterbo, in his Pantheon or Universal Chronicle, inserted this romance