I beg leave to inform "SELEUCUS," that _The Phoenix_, with an
English version, and with the Latin original, is to be found in the
_Codex Exoniensis_, edited by me, in 1842, for the Society of
Antiquaries. The Latin ascribed to Lactantius, is printed in the
Variourum edition of Claudian, and, I believe, in the editions of
Lactantius.

Jan. 30, 1850.

B. THORPE.

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PORTRAITS OF LUTHER AND ERASMUS.

Your correspondent, "R.G." (No. 13. 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. Juncker's book is a very good repertory of the
various representations of the great reformer, but the prints are
generally but faithless copies. In 1750 Kirchmayer printed an
especial disquisition upon the portrait by Lucas Cranach of 1523,
under the following title:--"Disquisitio Historia de Martini Lutheri
Oris et Vultus Habitu Hervieo ad vivum expresso in Imagine divine
pencilli Lucæ Cranachj patris in ære hic incisa," &c., Wittebergæ