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for displaying that regard (compare Acts, xii., 21 with Matt., xiv., 6, and Mark, vi., 21), and be celebrated with all the solemnities of a sabbath. It was the custom (as we have seen, Juv., xii., 92), on occasions of great rejoicing, to cover the door-posts and fronts of the houses with branches and flowers, among which violets were very conspicuous (Juv., _u. s._), and to suspend lighted lamps even at a very early hour from the windows, and trees near the house. (So Tertull., Apol.,
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Lucernis diem infringere. Lactant., vi., 2,
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Accendunt lumina velut in tenebris agenti.