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under its branches between Apollonius and Thespesio, chief of 

 the Gymnosophists, reverently " bowed itself down and saluted 

 Apollonius, giving him the title of Wise, with a distinct but weak 

 and shrill voice, like a woman." 



The blind man to whom our Saviour restored his sight said, at 

 first, " I see men walking as if they were trees!" one Anastasius of 

 Nice, however, has recorded that, oppositely, he had seen trees 

 walk as if they were men. Bishop Fleetwood remarks that this 

 Anastasius, being persuaded that by miraculous means our neigh- 

 bours' trees may be brought into our own field, relates that a heretic 

 of Zizicum, of the sect of the Pneumatomachians, had, by the virtue 

 of his art, brought near to his own house a great Olive-tree 

 belonging to one of his neighbours, that he and his disciples might 

 have the benefit of the freshness of the shade to protect them from 

 the heat of the sun. By this art, also, it was that the plantation 

 of Ohves, belonging to Vectidius, changed its place. 



Maundevile has preserved a record of a tree of miraculous 

 origin, that in his time grew in the city of Tiberias. The old 

 knight writes : — " In that cytee a man cast an brennynge [a 

 burning] dart in wratthe after oure Lord, and the hed smote in to 

 the eerthe, and wex grene, and it growed to a gret tree; and yit it 

 growethe, and the bark there of is alle lyke coles." 



iHiracuIoug HLxtt of CTifieriaB. From Mmmdcvile's Trawls. 



Among flowers, the Rose — the especial flower of martyrdom — 

 has been the most connected with miracles. Maundevile gives it a 

 miraculous origin, alleging that at Bethlehem the faggots lighted to 

 burn an innocent maiden were, owing to her earnest prayers, 

 extinguished and miraculously changed into bushes which bore the 



