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Its verd-antique, in Graeco Roman marble, silk plush and metal trimmings, harmonizes admirably with the dull old ivory of the proscenium arch, tricked out with the iridescence of fevrile glass.
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“Officinis non sine risu eruditorum, Graeco articulo adjecto, Olibanus vocatur.”
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Non reperi in graeco codice, quanquam arbitror omissum librariorum incuria.
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Nam et haec in quodam codice graeco asscripta reperi, sed in margine.”
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Dr. Westcott understands the term, citing from Tertullian, De Monogamia, xi: “sciamus planè non sic esse in Graeco authentico.”
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