[The willow is considered as the emblem of despairing love, and is
often associated with the yew and the cypress in the churchyard:
hence, a garland made of the boughs of the willow was said to be
worn by forlorn lovers. In _Much Ado about Nothing_, Act II. Sc.
1., Benedick says,--"I offered him my company to a willow-tree,
either to make him a garland, as being forsaken, or to bind him up
a rod, as being worthy to be whipped."]
_Name of Nun._--Can any of your readers inform me on what principle it
is that the name of Nun ([Hebrew]), the father of Joshua, is expressed
in the Septuagint by [Greek: nauê]? I cannot help regarding the
substitution of [Greek: auê] for [Hebrew] as a very singular
circumstance, more especially as it seems impossible to account for it
by the conjecture that [Hebrew] had been mistaken by the LXX for any
letter that would be likely to be represented in Greek by [Greek: ê].
There are but few proper names in the Hebrew Scriptures that terminate
in [Hebrew] and the way in which these are expressed in the Septuagint
affords, I believe, no analogy to the above case.