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1 So. a part of the body which, not being fleshy, does not 

 spoil the scent by its warmth. So Plin. 13. 19. appears to 

 give the point experimentum (unguentorum) inversa manu 

 capitur, ne carnosae partis color vitiet, though it may be 

 questioned whether inversa manu represents Kapirov. Pliny's 



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