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or makes it like some worthless animal, smearing it with something red, painting it red, and smearing over every stain in it.
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Verse 14. Vermilion. The ancients greatly esteemed this colour, ( Calmet.) and painted with it the statues of their gods on festival days, and the bodies of those who had the honour of a triumph. Pliny, xxxiii. 6.
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