| Introduction |
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| Translator's Preface |
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| Idea of the work |
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Explanation of the Frontispiece |
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| BOOK I: ESTABLISHING PRINCIPLES |
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32 | (7) |
| SECTION 1. NOTES ON THE CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE |
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39 | (36) |
| SECTION 2. ELEMENTS |
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75 | (44) |
| SECTION 3. PRINCIPLES |
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119 | (5) |
| SECTION 4. METHOD |
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124 | (20) |
| BOOK 2: POETIC WISDOM |
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135 | (1) |
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135 | (1) |
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136 | (2) |
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Introduction to Poetic Wisdom and its Divisions |
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138 | (1) |
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The Universal Flood and the Giants |
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139 | (5) |
| SECTION 1. POETIC METAPHYSICS |
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144 | (13) |
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Poetic Metaphysics as the Origin of Poetry, Idolatry, Divination, and Sacrifices |
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144 | (6) |
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Corollaries on the Principal Aspects of the New Science |
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150 | (7) |
| SECTION 2. POETIC LOGIC |
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157 | (50) |
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157 | (2) |
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Corollaries on Poetic Figures of Speech, Monsters,and Metamorphoses |
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159 | (4) |
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Corollaries on the Speech in Poetic Archetypes of the First Nations |
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163 | (7) |
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Corollaries on the Origins of Languages and Letters; Including the Origins of Hieroglyphics, Laws, Names, Family Arms, Medals, and Money; and the Origins of the First Language and Literature of the Natural Law of Nations |
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170 | (18) |
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Corollaries on the Origins of Poetic Style, Digressions, Inversions, Prose Rhythm, Song, and Verse |
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188 | (6) |
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194 | (8) |
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Final Corollaries on Logic in Educated People |
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202 | (5) |
| SECTION 3. POETIC MORALITY |
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207 | (10) |
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Poetic Morality and the Origins of the Common Virtues Taught by Religion through the Institution of Matrimony |
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207 | (10) |
| SECTION 4. POETIC ECONOMICS, OR HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT |
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217 | (35) |
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Household Management in Nuclear Families |
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217 | (19) |
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Extended Families of Family Servants as Essential to the Founding of Cities |
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236 | (11) |
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Corollaries on Contracts Sealed by Simple Consent |
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247 | (3) |
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250 | (2) |
| SECTION 5. POETIC POLITICS |
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252 | (54) |
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Poetic Politics: The Severely Aristocratic Form of the First Commonwealths |
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252 | (12) |
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All Commonwealths Arise from Invariable Principles of Fiefs |
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264 | (11) |
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Origins of the Census and Public Treasury |
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275 | (3) |
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The Origin of Roman Assemblies |
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278 | (2) |
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Corollary: Divine Providence Ordains both Commonwealths and the Natural Law of Nations |
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280 | (4) |
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Heroic Politics Continued |
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284 | (13) |
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Corollaries on Roman Antiquities, Particularly the Imaginary Monarchy at Rome and the Imaginary Popular Liberty Established Junius Brutus |
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297 | (3) |
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Corollary on the Heroism of the First Peoples |
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300 | (6) |
| SECTION 6. EPITOMES OF POETIC HISTORY |
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306 | (4) |
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Epitomes of Poetic History |
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306 | (4) |
| SECTION 7. POETIC PHYSICS |
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310 | (10) |
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310 | (2) |
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Poetic Physics of the Human Body: Heroic Nature |
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312 | (4) |
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Corollary on Heroic Statements |
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316 | (1) |
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Corollary on Heroic Descriptions |
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317 | (1) |
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Corollary on Heroic Customs |
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318 | (2) |
| SECTION 8. POETIC COSMOGRAPHY |
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320 | (8) |
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320 | (8) |
| SECTION 9. POETIC ASTRONOMY |
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328 | (3) |
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328 | (1) |
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Astronomical, Physical, and Historical Proof that All Ancient Pagan Nations Shared Uniform Astronomical Principles |
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328 | (3) |
| SECTION 10. POETIC CHRONOLOGY |
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331 | (7) |
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331 | (3) |
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Canon of Chronology for Determining the Origins of Universal History, Which Must Antedate the Monarchy of Ninus, its Traditional Starting Point |
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334 | (4) |
| SECTION 11. POETIC GEOGRAPHY |
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338 | (17) |
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338 | (8) |
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Corollary on Aeneas' Arrival in Italy |
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346 | (2) |
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Names and Descriptions of Heroic Cities |
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348 | (7) |
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351 | (4) |
| BOOK 3: DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE HOMER |
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| SECTION I. THE SEARCH FOR THE TRUE HOMER |
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355 | (26) |
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355 | (1) |
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The Esoteric Wisdom Attributed to Homer |
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355 | (4) |
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359 | (1) |
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360 | (3) |
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Homer's Incomparable Gift for Heroic Poetry |
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363 | (3) |
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Philosophical Proofs for the Discovery of the True Homer |
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366 | (7) |
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Philosophical Proofs for the Discovery of the True Homer |
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373 | (8) |
| SECTION 2. DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE HOMER |
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381 | (16) |
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381 | (1) |
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Inconsistencies and Improbabilities in the Traditional Homer Become Consistent and Necessary in the Homer Discovered Here |
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382 | (5) |
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Homer's Epics: Two Great Repositories of the Natural Law of the Greeks |
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387 | (10) |
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Appendix. A Rational History of the Dramatic and Lyric Poets |
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388 | (7) |
| BOOK 4: THE COURSE OF NATIONS |
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395 | (2) |
| SECTION 1. THREE KINDS OF HUMAN NATURE |
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397 | (2) |
| SECTION 2. THREE KINDS OF CUSTOMS |
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399 | (1) |
| SECTION 3. THREE KINDS OF NATURAL LAW |
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400 | (1) |
| SECTION 4. THREE KINDS OF GOVERNMENT |
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401 | (1) |
| SECTION 5. THREE KINDS OF LANGUAGE |
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402 | (1) |
| SECTION 6. THREE KINDS OF SYMBOLS |
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403 | (2) |
| SECTION 7. THREE KINDS OF JURISPRUDENCE |
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405 | (2) |
| SECTION 8. THREE KINDS OF AUTHORITY |
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407 | (2) |
| SECTION 9. THREE KINDS OF REASON |
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409 | (5) |
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Divine Reason and Reason of State |
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409 | (1) |
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Corollary on the Ancient Romans' Wisdom of State |
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410 | (1) |
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Corollary: The Fundamental History of Roman Law |
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411 | (3) |
| SECTION 10. THREE KINDS OF JUDGMENTS |
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414 | (10) |
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First Kind: Divine Judgments |
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414 | (2) |
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Corollary on Duels and Reprisals |
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416 | (3) |
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Second Kind: Ordinary Judgments |
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419 | (3) |
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Third Kind: Human Judgments |
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422 | (2) |
| SECTION II. THREE SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT |
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424 | (2) |
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Schools of Thought in Religious, Punctilious, and Civil Ages |
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424 | (2) |
| SECTION 12. FURTHER PROOFS DRAWN FROM THE PROPERTIES OF HEROIC ARISTOCRACIES |
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426 | (14) |
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426 | (1) |
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The Guarding of Boundaries |
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426 | (2) |
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The Guarding of Social Orders |
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428 | (8) |
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436 | (4) |
| SECTION 13 |
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440 | (8) |
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Further Proofs Drawn from Mixed Commonwealths Which Combine Earlier Governments with Later States |
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440 | (2) |
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An Eternal and Natural `Royal Law' By Which Nations Come to Rest in Monarchies |
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442 | (1) |
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A Refutation of the Principles of Political Theory Based on the System of Jean Bodin |
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443 | (5) |
| SECTION 14. FINAL PROOFS CONFIRMING THE COURSE OF NATIONS |
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448 | (45) |
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Punishments, Wars, and the Order of Numbers |
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448 | (3) |
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Corollary: Ancient Roman Law as Serious Epic Poem, and Ancient Jurisprudence as Severe Poetry Containing the First Rough Outlines of Legal Metaphysics; also, the Legal Origins of Greek Philosophy |
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451 | (10) |
| BOOK 5: THE RESURGENCE OF NATIONS AND THE RECURRENCE OF HUMAN INSTITUTIONS |
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461 | (1) |
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Medieval Barbaric History Illuminated by Ancient Barbaric History |
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461 | (4) |
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The Recurrence of the Invariable Nature of Fiefs, and the Recurrence of Ancient Roman Law in Feudal Law |
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465 | (12) |
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Description of the Ancient and Modern Worlds in the light of the New Science |
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477 | (16) |
| CONCLUSION OF THE WORK |
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On the Eternal Natural Commonwealth, Best in its Kind, Ordained |
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483 | (10) |
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| Index and Glossary |
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