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suffimentum caedis hostium et purgatio Plin
Suffimentum (suffio) is a means of fumigating: in iis sine illius suffimentis expiati sumus, Leg. 1, 14, 40; laurus sit suffimentum caedis hostium et purgatio, Plin. 15, 30, 40.
— from Humanistic Studies of the University of Kansas, Vol. 1 by Pearl Hogrefe

studio canvases his early panel portraits
Where, may we ask, are his studio canvases, his early panel portraits, and all the thousand-and-one sketches and freaks of a [Pg 27] young artist?
— from Franz Hals by Edgcumbe Staley

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