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quinta parte: perhaps merely a goodly portion, as the Greeks said that honey was the ninth part of ambrosia; possibly an allusioii to the quintesseuce or πέμτη οὐσία of the Pythagoreans, which, of course, has nothing to do with the e~ sences that 'turn the live air sick' of the perfumer.


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