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I. the aloe, Plin. 27, 4, 5; used as a medicine, Cels 1, 3; 2, 12; as a perfume, Vulg. Prov. 7, 17; ib Cant. 4, 14; in embalming, ib. Joan. 19, 39.—On accouns of its bitterness, trop.: plus aloës quam mellis habet, * Juv. 6, 180.