Michael was deposed at the end | του
ρήτορος
(ibid.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
(For an account
observed :
:-“But I take a long time about mine" of these works, see Müller, Archäol. d. K'unst,
('Εγώ δε πολλά χρόνω: Ρlut. Per. 13). The $ 362, n. 4 ; for a sketch of the picture at Hercu-
tale is told with a slight variation by Plutarch, in laneum, Müller, Denkmäler d. alten Kunst, vol. i.
another passage (De Amic. Mult. 5, p. 94, f. ), that pl. xliii. No. 204; and for copies of other works,
Zeuxis, being blamed for the slowness with which which represent the story of Apollo and Marsyas,
he worked, replied, “ I confess that I take a long see the Denkmäler, vol. ii. pl. xiv. Nos. 149–154).
time to paint ; for I paint works to last a long The Menelaus of Zeuxis is mentioned by Tzetzes
time (Ομολογώ εν πολλά χρόνα γράφειν, και γάρ (Chil. viii. 196–198); and his Boreas or Triton
eis nonúv. hence the proverb, Pingo in aeternita- by Lucian (Timon, 54). Pliny tells us that he
tem). There are other anecdotes told of Zeuxis in painted monochromes in shades of gray (monochro-
common with other great painters. Thus the ce- mata ex albo); and also that there were some vases
lebrated verse, ascribed to APOLLODORUS, is said painted by him (figlina opera) at Ambracia, where
by Pliny to have been written by Zeuxis upon his they were left untouched by Fulvius Nobilior,
picture of an athlete:-“ A man will find it easier when he took away the picture of the Muses. The
to blame than to imitate ” (Invisurum aliquem fu- statement of Cicero (Brutus, 18), that Zeuxis used
cilius, quam imitaturum): or, in the original, only four colours, is explained in the Dictionary of
Μωμήσεται τις μάλλον και μιμήσεται.
Antiquitics, s. 0. Colores, p. 320, b. 2d ed.
2. An artist in gold (aurifer) in the household
The reproof addressed by A pelles to Megabyzus, of Augustus, whose freedman he was, as we learn
or, as others say, to Alexander, is ascriced by from an inscription on the columbarium of Livia.
Aelian (V. H. ii. 2) to Zeuxis. (See APELLES, (Gori, Nos. 114-122; Bianchini, No. 43; Welcker,
p. 221, a. )
Kunstblatt, 1827, No. 84 ; R. Rochette, Lettre à
It is unnecessary to multiply references to pas- M. Schorn, p. 430).
sages of the ancient writers in praise of Zeuxis. Respecting a supposed statuary Zeuris, whose
The remarkable fact that his name is not mentioned name arises from a false reading of Pliny, see
by Pausanias, is explained by the supposition, SILANION and ZeUXIADES.
[P. S. ]
which is almost undoubtedly true, that his pictures ΖΙΒΟ ETES or ZIPOETES (Ζιβοίτης or Ζιποί-
were nuostly upon panels, according to the general 795). 1. King of Bithynia, the son of Bas. He
practice of the Greek painters, and therefore that reigned for forty-eight years (B. C. 326—278). He
they had either been destroyed or plundered before carried on successful wars with Lysimachus and
the time of Pausanias. The latter process would Antiochus, the son of Seleucus. (Memnon, ap.
of course be carried on by the Roman conquerors Phot. Cod. 224, p. 228, ed. Bekker. ) In B. c. 315
of Greece with an eagerness proportioned to the he carried on a war against Astacus and Chalcedon.
celebrity of the artist, and accordingly we find (Diod. xix. 60. ) He founded a city which was
several of his best works in the list of Pliny. called Zipoetium after him at the foot of Mount
Cicero also expressly tells us, with reference to the Lyperus. He lived to the age of seventy-six, and
pictures which he painted for the temple of Juno left behind him four children, the eldest of whom,
at Croton, that not even the sanctity of the fane Nicomedes, succeeded himn. (Memnon, l. c. )
had availed for the preservation of any of them, 2. Son of the preceding, who established him-
except the Helen. He does not, however, say self in a part of Bithynia, and against whom Nico-
distinctly whether that great work was still at medes carried on war in B. c. 277. It was for the
Croton in his time. Pliny mentions a Helen by purpose of overpowering him that Nicomedes called
Zeuxis as being at Rome, in the portico of Philip ; in the aid of the Gauls. (Liv. xxxviii. 16; comp.
but he does not identify it with the picture painted Clinton, Fasti Hellen. vol. iii. p. 411. ).
for the Crotoniats, the subject of which indeed he The name Tiboetes (TIBOETES] is by some cor-
does not mention: it is not improbable however rected to Ziboetes.
[C. P. M. )
that they were the same. The picture of Helen ZIGABE’NUS, EUTHY'MIUS. [EUTUY-
at Athens, in the portico called 'Anpitwr Etoá MIUS.
was of course not the same ; but it may have been ZMILUS. (Smilis. ]
a copy of it. (Eustath. ad N. xi. 629, p. 836, 37). ZOE (Zań), the name of several empresses of
How the Athenians were robbed by Sulla of his Constantinople, of whom the following were the
Centaur, and how that picture perished, has been most important :
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THIAR
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ZONA
a celebrat
lived in
Alexis I.
name.
1. Surnamed Carbonopsina, the wife of Leo VI. | According to Heracleides Ponticus (Alleg. Hom.
the philosopher, who reigned A. D. 886- 911. She p. 427), he was originally a Thracian slave. Aelian
survived her husband, and her effigy appears on speaks of him as having been a pupil of Polycrates,
the coins of her son Constantinus VII. Porphyro who wrote an accusation of Socrates.
genitus. (Eckhel, vol. viii. pp. 246—248. ) (L50 Zoilus was celebrated for the asperity with
VI. ; CONSTANTINUS VII. ]
which he assailed Homer, from which he derived
2. The daughter of Constantinus IX. was mar- the epithet of 'Ounpoudotit. (Suid. & v. ; Schol. ad
ried first to Romanus III. Argyrus, who succeeded | Il. v. 7, 20, i. 129, x. 274, xviii. 22, xxii. 209,
her father on the throne, and reigned A. D. 1028–xxiii. 100 ; Eustath. ad Od. p. 1614 ; Schol. in
1034. Towards the end of her husband's reign, | Plat. Hipparch. p. 240. ) He found fault with
though she was then about 50 years of age, she him principally for introducing fabulous and incre-
carried on a criminal intrigue with the general dible stories in his poems. From the list that we
Michael, surnamed the Paphlagonian ; and that have of his writings, it also appears that he at.
she might be able to gratify her pleasures without tacked Plato and Isocrates. His name became pro-
restraint she caused her husband to be murdered, verbial for a captious and malignant critic. (Inge-
and raised Michael to the throne, whom she then nium magni licor detrectat Homeri. Quisquis es,
married. Michael IV. the Paphlagonian, reigned ex illo, Zoile, nomen habes, Ovid. Rem. An. 366. )
from A. D. 1031–1041; and on his death, she He was also styled Kúwv ontopirós (Aelian. V. H.
was persuaded by the people to reign in her own xi. 10. ) It is worthy of note, however, that
A few days made Zoë repent her ambition, Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Ep. ad Pomp. c. 1)
and she placed the crown on the head of Michael speaks of him with considerable respect, and does
V. Calaphates, whom her second husband had not hesitate to class hini among critics of the
adopted in his life-time. The new emperor showed highest rank. The following works of Zoilus are
the basest ingratitude to his benefactress, and mentioned :- 1. nepl 'AUDITÓNEWS B. baía tpla
commenced his reign by banishing Zoë. This and (Suid. l. c. ). 2. 'lotopla and coyovias éws ons
other imprudent acts caused an insurrection at | Φιλίππου τελευτής (ibid. ). 3. Κατά Ισοκράτους
Constantinople.
Michael was deposed at the end | του ρήτορος (ibid. ). 4. Κατά της Ομήρου ποιήσεως
of a yeur's reign, and Zoë and her sister Theodora nóyou évvéa. 5. Ψόγος Ομήρου. Unless this is
were proclaimed co-empresses on the 21st of April, only another name for the preceding (ibid. Ael.
1042. The two sisters reigned together for about 1. c. ; Dionys. l. c. ; Plut. Symp. v. p. 677 ; Schol.
two months; but as they feared for their position, ad Hom. Il. Il. cc. ) 6. Katà nétwvos (Aelian.
Zoë, who was then about 60, married a third hus- 1. c. ;Dionys. ad Pomp. p. 752). 7. Tevediwvegada
band, whom she raised to the throne, and who is ulov (Strab. vi. p. 271). 8. A work on the figures
known by the name of Constantinus X. Monoma- of speech, from which Quintilian quotes, with dis-
chus. She died in 1050 while her third husband approbation, a definition of oxñua (Quint. ix. l.
was still alive. [CONSTANTINUS IX. ; ROMANUS$ 14, comp. Phoebammon de Fig. p. 588, ed. Ald. ).
III. ; Michael IV. and V. ; CONSTANTINUS X. ! None of these have come down to us.
ZOETEUS (Zoiteús), a son of Tricolonus, and told by Suidas of his having been thrown headlong
founder of the town of Zoetia in Arcadia (Paus. down the Scironian rocks, is probably as fabulous
viii. 35. § 6 ; Steph. Byz. s. v). (L. S. ] as the other accounts of a similar kind given by
ZO'ILUS (Zwłaos). ). A person of this name Vitruvius. (Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. i. p. 559, &c. ;
is mentioned by Diogenes Laërtius (viii. 2) as the Voss. de Hist. Gr. p. 130, &c. )
uncle of Pythagoras.
3. A grammarian of the name of Zoilus is intro
2. A grammarian, who, according to the greater duced by Athenaeus (i. 1) among the Deipnoso-
number of authorities, was a native of Amphipolis. phistae.
By others (Schol. ad Iliad. v. 4 ; Eustath. p. 387) 4. A native of Perga, from whom Diogenes
he is called an Ephesian. The age in which he Laërtius (vi. 37) quotes some statements respecting
lived has been the subject of soine discussion, as Diogenes the Cynic.
the authorities are irreconcileably at variance. The 5. A native of Cyprus, an artificer, mentioned by
great majority of them (Suid. s. v. ; Aelian. V. H. Plutarch (Demetr. 21).
xi. 10; Dionys. de Isaco, p. 627, de Vi Demosth. 6. Tyrant of Caesarea, mentioned by Josephus
p. 974 ; Suid. s. v. Anuoo0 évns) make him contem- (Ant. Jud. xiii. 20).
porary with the disciples of Isocrates. On the 7. Others of this name, not worth mentioning
other hand, there is a passage in Vitruvius, which here, are enumerated by Fabricius (Bibl. Gr. vol. .
assigns him to the age of Ptolemaeus Philadelphus p. 561, &c. ).
(C. P. M. ]
(Praefat. ad lib. VII. ). He is said by Vitruvius ZOILUS (Zúiros), a physician, who must have
to have come to Alexandria in the hope of securing lived in or before the first century after Christ, as
the patronage of the king, who, however, was in- he is quoted by Andromachus the younger (ap.
dignant at the manner in which he treated the Gal. De Compos. Medicam. sec. Loc. iii. 1, vol. xii. p.
poems of Homer, and paid no regard to him. Va-632). He appears to have given particular attention
rious accounts were given of his having met with a to diseases of the eye, as he is called ó ópeanyikós.
violent death (l. c. ). But though it is within the Several of his medical formulae are preserved by
limits of possibility that Zoilus lived to see the ac- Galen (ibid. iv. 8, pp. 752, 763, 771 ; De Antid. ii.
cession of Ptolemaeus Philadelphus, this, as Clinton 12, vol. xiv. p. 178), Alexander Trallianus (ii. 5,
says (Fasti Hellen. iii. p. 381), does not satisfy the p. 173), Aëtius (ii. 3. 11, 113. pp. 304, 360, 361),
details of the account of Vitruvius, which, when and Nicolaus Myrepsus (xxiv. 25. p. 658). See
closely examined, proves to be inconsistent with C. G. Kühn, Index Medicor. Ocularior. inter
itself. The safest course, therefore, is to reject it Graccos Romanosq. Fascic. xi. (W. A. G. ]
altogether. “ Zoilus began to be eminent before ZO'ILUS (Zwtros), artists. 1. A medallist,
the rise of Demosthenes, and continued to write whose name occurs on the coins of Perseus, king
after the death of Philip. " (Clinton, loc. p. 485. ) | of Macedonia, in such a manner as to make it ces.
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('Εγώ δε πολλά χρόνω: Ρlut. Per. 13). The $ 362, n. 4 ; for a sketch of the picture at Hercu-
tale is told with a slight variation by Plutarch, in laneum, Müller, Denkmäler d. alten Kunst, vol. i.
another passage (De Amic. Mult. 5, p. 94, f. ), that pl. xliii. No. 204; and for copies of other works,
Zeuxis, being blamed for the slowness with which which represent the story of Apollo and Marsyas,
he worked, replied, “ I confess that I take a long see the Denkmäler, vol. ii. pl. xiv. Nos. 149–154).
time to paint ; for I paint works to last a long The Menelaus of Zeuxis is mentioned by Tzetzes
time (Ομολογώ εν πολλά χρόνα γράφειν, και γάρ (Chil. viii. 196–198); and his Boreas or Triton
eis nonúv. hence the proverb, Pingo in aeternita- by Lucian (Timon, 54). Pliny tells us that he
tem). There are other anecdotes told of Zeuxis in painted monochromes in shades of gray (monochro-
common with other great painters. Thus the ce- mata ex albo); and also that there were some vases
lebrated verse, ascribed to APOLLODORUS, is said painted by him (figlina opera) at Ambracia, where
by Pliny to have been written by Zeuxis upon his they were left untouched by Fulvius Nobilior,
picture of an athlete:-“ A man will find it easier when he took away the picture of the Muses. The
to blame than to imitate ” (Invisurum aliquem fu- statement of Cicero (Brutus, 18), that Zeuxis used
cilius, quam imitaturum): or, in the original, only four colours, is explained in the Dictionary of
Μωμήσεται τις μάλλον και μιμήσεται.
Antiquitics, s. 0. Colores, p. 320, b. 2d ed.
2. An artist in gold (aurifer) in the household
The reproof addressed by A pelles to Megabyzus, of Augustus, whose freedman he was, as we learn
or, as others say, to Alexander, is ascriced by from an inscription on the columbarium of Livia.
Aelian (V. H. ii. 2) to Zeuxis. (See APELLES, (Gori, Nos. 114-122; Bianchini, No. 43; Welcker,
p. 221, a. )
Kunstblatt, 1827, No. 84 ; R. Rochette, Lettre à
It is unnecessary to multiply references to pas- M. Schorn, p. 430).
sages of the ancient writers in praise of Zeuxis. Respecting a supposed statuary Zeuris, whose
The remarkable fact that his name is not mentioned name arises from a false reading of Pliny, see
by Pausanias, is explained by the supposition, SILANION and ZeUXIADES.
[P. S. ]
which is almost undoubtedly true, that his pictures ΖΙΒΟ ETES or ZIPOETES (Ζιβοίτης or Ζιποί-
were nuostly upon panels, according to the general 795). 1. King of Bithynia, the son of Bas. He
practice of the Greek painters, and therefore that reigned for forty-eight years (B. C. 326—278). He
they had either been destroyed or plundered before carried on successful wars with Lysimachus and
the time of Pausanias. The latter process would Antiochus, the son of Seleucus. (Memnon, ap.
of course be carried on by the Roman conquerors Phot. Cod. 224, p. 228, ed. Bekker. ) In B. c. 315
of Greece with an eagerness proportioned to the he carried on a war against Astacus and Chalcedon.
celebrity of the artist, and accordingly we find (Diod. xix. 60. ) He founded a city which was
several of his best works in the list of Pliny. called Zipoetium after him at the foot of Mount
Cicero also expressly tells us, with reference to the Lyperus. He lived to the age of seventy-six, and
pictures which he painted for the temple of Juno left behind him four children, the eldest of whom,
at Croton, that not even the sanctity of the fane Nicomedes, succeeded himn. (Memnon, l. c. )
had availed for the preservation of any of them, 2. Son of the preceding, who established him-
except the Helen. He does not, however, say self in a part of Bithynia, and against whom Nico-
distinctly whether that great work was still at medes carried on war in B. c. 277. It was for the
Croton in his time. Pliny mentions a Helen by purpose of overpowering him that Nicomedes called
Zeuxis as being at Rome, in the portico of Philip ; in the aid of the Gauls. (Liv. xxxviii. 16; comp.
but he does not identify it with the picture painted Clinton, Fasti Hellen. vol. iii. p. 411. ).
for the Crotoniats, the subject of which indeed he The name Tiboetes (TIBOETES] is by some cor-
does not mention: it is not improbable however rected to Ziboetes.
[C. P. M. )
that they were the same. The picture of Helen ZIGABE’NUS, EUTHY'MIUS. [EUTUY-
at Athens, in the portico called 'Anpitwr Etoá MIUS.
was of course not the same ; but it may have been ZMILUS. (Smilis. ]
a copy of it. (Eustath. ad N. xi. 629, p. 836, 37). ZOE (Zań), the name of several empresses of
How the Athenians were robbed by Sulla of his Constantinople, of whom the following were the
Centaur, and how that picture perished, has been most important :
VOL. III.
p
le setiaz
Dz'e vas terre
TA F*
cie bez
i the per
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-
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ZOILUS.
ZOILUS.
tin, in th
nade is th
à M. Scho
2. A s
bold of
interpreta:
THIAR
doubtful.
2d ed. )
ZONA
a celebrat
lived in
Alexis I.
name.
1. Surnamed Carbonopsina, the wife of Leo VI. | According to Heracleides Ponticus (Alleg. Hom.
the philosopher, who reigned A. D. 886- 911. She p. 427), he was originally a Thracian slave. Aelian
survived her husband, and her effigy appears on speaks of him as having been a pupil of Polycrates,
the coins of her son Constantinus VII. Porphyro who wrote an accusation of Socrates.
genitus. (Eckhel, vol. viii. pp. 246—248. ) (L50 Zoilus was celebrated for the asperity with
VI. ; CONSTANTINUS VII. ]
which he assailed Homer, from which he derived
2. The daughter of Constantinus IX. was mar- the epithet of 'Ounpoudotit. (Suid. & v. ; Schol. ad
ried first to Romanus III. Argyrus, who succeeded | Il. v. 7, 20, i. 129, x. 274, xviii. 22, xxii. 209,
her father on the throne, and reigned A. D. 1028–xxiii. 100 ; Eustath. ad Od. p. 1614 ; Schol. in
1034. Towards the end of her husband's reign, | Plat. Hipparch. p. 240. ) He found fault with
though she was then about 50 years of age, she him principally for introducing fabulous and incre-
carried on a criminal intrigue with the general dible stories in his poems. From the list that we
Michael, surnamed the Paphlagonian ; and that have of his writings, it also appears that he at.
she might be able to gratify her pleasures without tacked Plato and Isocrates. His name became pro-
restraint she caused her husband to be murdered, verbial for a captious and malignant critic. (Inge-
and raised Michael to the throne, whom she then nium magni licor detrectat Homeri. Quisquis es,
married. Michael IV. the Paphlagonian, reigned ex illo, Zoile, nomen habes, Ovid. Rem. An. 366. )
from A. D. 1031–1041; and on his death, she He was also styled Kúwv ontopirós (Aelian. V. H.
was persuaded by the people to reign in her own xi. 10. ) It is worthy of note, however, that
A few days made Zoë repent her ambition, Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Ep. ad Pomp. c. 1)
and she placed the crown on the head of Michael speaks of him with considerable respect, and does
V. Calaphates, whom her second husband had not hesitate to class hini among critics of the
adopted in his life-time. The new emperor showed highest rank. The following works of Zoilus are
the basest ingratitude to his benefactress, and mentioned :- 1. nepl 'AUDITÓNEWS B. baía tpla
commenced his reign by banishing Zoë. This and (Suid. l. c. ). 2. 'lotopla and coyovias éws ons
other imprudent acts caused an insurrection at | Φιλίππου τελευτής (ibid. ). 3. Κατά Ισοκράτους
Constantinople.
Michael was deposed at the end | του ρήτορος (ibid. ). 4. Κατά της Ομήρου ποιήσεως
of a yeur's reign, and Zoë and her sister Theodora nóyou évvéa. 5. Ψόγος Ομήρου. Unless this is
were proclaimed co-empresses on the 21st of April, only another name for the preceding (ibid. Ael.
1042. The two sisters reigned together for about 1. c. ; Dionys. l. c. ; Plut. Symp. v. p. 677 ; Schol.
two months; but as they feared for their position, ad Hom. Il. Il. cc. ) 6. Katà nétwvos (Aelian.
Zoë, who was then about 60, married a third hus- 1. c. ;Dionys. ad Pomp. p. 752). 7. Tevediwvegada
band, whom she raised to the throne, and who is ulov (Strab. vi. p. 271). 8. A work on the figures
known by the name of Constantinus X. Monoma- of speech, from which Quintilian quotes, with dis-
chus. She died in 1050 while her third husband approbation, a definition of oxñua (Quint. ix. l.
was still alive. [CONSTANTINUS IX. ; ROMANUS$ 14, comp. Phoebammon de Fig. p. 588, ed. Ald. ).
III. ; Michael IV. and V. ; CONSTANTINUS X. ! None of these have come down to us.
ZOETEUS (Zoiteús), a son of Tricolonus, and told by Suidas of his having been thrown headlong
founder of the town of Zoetia in Arcadia (Paus. down the Scironian rocks, is probably as fabulous
viii. 35. § 6 ; Steph. Byz. s. v). (L. S. ] as the other accounts of a similar kind given by
ZO'ILUS (Zwłaos). ). A person of this name Vitruvius. (Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. i. p. 559, &c. ;
is mentioned by Diogenes Laërtius (viii. 2) as the Voss. de Hist. Gr. p. 130, &c. )
uncle of Pythagoras.
3. A grammarian of the name of Zoilus is intro
2. A grammarian, who, according to the greater duced by Athenaeus (i. 1) among the Deipnoso-
number of authorities, was a native of Amphipolis. phistae.
By others (Schol. ad Iliad. v. 4 ; Eustath. p. 387) 4. A native of Perga, from whom Diogenes
he is called an Ephesian. The age in which he Laërtius (vi. 37) quotes some statements respecting
lived has been the subject of soine discussion, as Diogenes the Cynic.
the authorities are irreconcileably at variance. The 5. A native of Cyprus, an artificer, mentioned by
great majority of them (Suid. s. v. ; Aelian. V. H. Plutarch (Demetr. 21).
xi. 10; Dionys. de Isaco, p. 627, de Vi Demosth. 6. Tyrant of Caesarea, mentioned by Josephus
p. 974 ; Suid. s. v. Anuoo0 évns) make him contem- (Ant. Jud. xiii. 20).
porary with the disciples of Isocrates. On the 7. Others of this name, not worth mentioning
other hand, there is a passage in Vitruvius, which here, are enumerated by Fabricius (Bibl. Gr. vol. .
assigns him to the age of Ptolemaeus Philadelphus p. 561, &c. ).
(C. P. M. ]
(Praefat. ad lib. VII. ). He is said by Vitruvius ZOILUS (Zúiros), a physician, who must have
to have come to Alexandria in the hope of securing lived in or before the first century after Christ, as
the patronage of the king, who, however, was in- he is quoted by Andromachus the younger (ap.
dignant at the manner in which he treated the Gal. De Compos. Medicam. sec. Loc. iii. 1, vol. xii. p.
poems of Homer, and paid no regard to him. Va-632). He appears to have given particular attention
rious accounts were given of his having met with a to diseases of the eye, as he is called ó ópeanyikós.
violent death (l. c. ). But though it is within the Several of his medical formulae are preserved by
limits of possibility that Zoilus lived to see the ac- Galen (ibid. iv. 8, pp. 752, 763, 771 ; De Antid. ii.
cession of Ptolemaeus Philadelphus, this, as Clinton 12, vol. xiv. p. 178), Alexander Trallianus (ii. 5,
says (Fasti Hellen. iii. p. 381), does not satisfy the p. 173), Aëtius (ii. 3. 11, 113. pp. 304, 360, 361),
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