Or do they follow the sun, as Peter Martyr legat Babylonica l. 2.

The salix babylonica, or the weeping willow, in its geographical range, sweeps through the plains of Judea, and by the ruins of Babylon, from the verge of the Mediterranean to the frontiers of Japana lovely line of beautythe Niobe of vegetation!

Am I right in supposing that the image of the great Reformer is found for the first time on the verse of the title-page of his treatise De Captivitate Babylonica Ecclesiae, 4to., s.l.v.a.; and that the wished-for representation of Erasmus may be seen in the small octavo volume, entitled Bellaria Epistolarum Erasmi Rot.

[Illustration: THE WEEPING WILLOW (Salix Babylonica).

The willow is a native of Babylon, and the weeping willow is called Salix Babylonica.

The branches of the Salix Babylonica often droop so low as to touch the ground, and because of this sweeping habit, and of its association with watercourses in the Bible, it has been considered a very suitable tree to plant beside ponds and fountains in ornamental grounds, as well as in cemeteries as an emblem of mourning.

p. 203.), is correct in supposing the wood-cut portrait of Luther to be that which is prefixed to the treatise "De Captivitate Babylonica Ecclesiæ," where he is habited as a monk; but it was evidently only a copy from the very interesting copper-plate engraving of his friend Lucas Cranach, bearing the date 1520, of which a very accurate copy was prefixed to the translation of "Luther's Way to Prayer," published by Mr. Pickering in 1846.

It has been suggested that the work should properly be styled the Lesbiaca, a name which recalls the Aethiopica and Babylonica, and reminds us that the author, though a student of Alexandrian literature, belonged to the school of the erotic romanciers and traditional bishops, Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius.

649 Salix phylicaefolia Phylica-leaved Willow c.m. 650 - babylonica Weeping Willow c.m. 651 - retusa Blunt-leaved ditto c.m. 652 Salix incubacea

In the Legatio Babylonica, Peter Martyr describes, with lamentations, the squalor of the once splendid city of Alexandria, famous for its beautiful gardens, superb palaces, and rich libraries.

The Legatio Babylonica, consisting of three reports to the Spanish sovereigns, to which addenda were later made, contains a mass of historical and geographical facts, of which Europeans were ignorant; nothing escaped the ambassador's omnivorous curiosity and discerning scrutiny, during what proved to be a veritable voyage of discovery.

Legatio Babylonica, Oceani Decas, Poemata, Epigrammata.

De Legatione Babylonica, Parisiis, 1532, contains also the first three Decades.

Novo Orbe Decades tres Petri Martyres ab Angheria Mediolanensis, item ejusdem de Babylonica Legationis libri ires.

An Italian translation of De Legatione Babylonica entitled Pietro Martyre Milanese, delle cose notabile dell' Egitto, tradotto dalla Lingue Latina in Lingua Italiana da Carlo Passi.

[Note 5: See De Legatione Babylonica.]

[Note 4: De Legatione Babylonica.]