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93 [In the original: "And the Word became--" "These words of the

Gospel of St. John are often used as an exclamation of

astonishment."-M. A. Biggs.]

94 ["Of all spoils the most important were the spolia opima, a

term applied to those only which the commander-in-chief of a

Roman army stripped in a field of battle from the leader of the

foe."-_Smith's Dictionary of Antiquities_. They were awarded but

three or four times in the course of Roman history.]

95 [In the original there is here an internal jingle between

klucznik (warden) and puszczyk (screech owl).]