{"slug":"stoa0105.stoa003.opp-lat1","id":"latin:ogl-pl:stoa0105.stoa003.opp-lat1","title":"Carmina Inedita","title_source":"Carmina Inedita","author":"SS Damasus I","genre":"poetry","date":"","tradition":"latin","coverage":"not-located","coverage_claim":{"status":"not-located","text":"No English translation could be identified: a language model asked twice could not name one, though it could not rule one out either. That is not proof that none exists — translations in dissertations, recent books and other modern languages are easily missed."},"publication":{"status":"machine-draft","reviewed_by":null,"model":"deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash:floor","provider":"Relace","generated":"2026-11-15T06:03:58Z","cost_usd":0.002294},"source":{"registry_id":"latin:ogl-pl:stoa0105.stoa003.opp-lat1","work_id":"stoa0105.stoa003.opp-lat1","edition":"ogl-pl","language":"","license":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://github.com/OpenGreekAndLatin/patrologia_latina-dev/blob/master/data/stoa0105/stoa003/stoa0105.stoa003.opp-lat1.xml"},"stats":{"passages":4,"english_words":840,"coptic_letters":0,"source_letters":3116,"commentary_units":20,"commentary_kinds":7,"derived_notes":0,"ambiguities":7,"work_notes":6,"external_links":0,"timeline":5},"summary":{"work":"stoa0105.stoa003.opp-lat1","abstract":"The Carmina Inedita are a collection of Latin poems attributed to Pope Damasus I (r. 366–384), composed in quantitative dactylic hexameter, the standard meter for late antique Christian poetry. They survive only in early modern manuscript copies, with no contemporary epigraphic or codex witness. The poems were not included in medieval collections of Damasian epigrams and had limited circulation until modern editions. Attribution rests on manuscript ascription and stylistic similarity to authenticated epigrams, but external confirmation is absent. The edition lacks a critical apparatus or stemma, and textual variants among surviving witnesses are not recorded.","historical_context":"The poems are conventionally assigned to the pontificate of Damasus I (366–384), a period when the Roman church was consolidating its authority and promoting the cult of martyrs. Damasus was a prolific composer of epigrams for Roman martyrs' tombs, often inscribed in monumental settings. The Carmina Inedita, however, survive only in early modern manuscript copies, with no contemporary epigraphic or codex witness. Their transmission is obscure: they were not included in standard medieval collections and had limited circulation until modern editions. The earliest known references come from Cardinal Caesar Baronius (16th c.), who noted that many of Damasus's poems had perished. The poems were later collected from Palatine manuscripts by Martius Milezius Sarazanius and published by Federicus Ubaldinus. The lack of a critical apparatus or stemma in the edition means textual variants among the few surviving witnesses are not recorded, and the precise date and place of composition remain uncertain.","significance":"The Carmina Inedita are significant as potential additions to the corpus of Damasian poetry, offering insight into late antique Christian literary culture and the development of Latin hymnody. They relate to the broader tradition of Damasus's authenticated epigrams and to the revival of classical meter for Christian themes. Their uncertain transmission and attribution highlight the challenges of reconstructing early Christian poetic corpora.","timeline":[{"date":"4th c.","event":"Conventional date of composition during the pontificate of Damasus I (366–384)."},{"date":"16th c.","event":"Cardinal Caesar Baronius notes that many of Damasus's poems had perished."},{"date":"17th c.","event":"Martius Milezius Sarazanius collects Damasus's poems from Palatine manuscripts; Federicus Ubaldinus publishes them."},{"date":"Early modern period","event":"Earliest surviving manuscript copies of the Carmina Inedita are produced."},{"date":"Modern era","event":"The poems are published in modern editions, though without a critical apparatus."}],"relations":[{"work":"Epigrammata Damasiana","relation":"Authenticated epigrams by Damasus I; the Carmina Inedita are stylistically similar but not included in medieval collections.","key":"","label":null,"url":null},{"work":"De Viris Illustribus (Jerome)","relation":"Jerome's work is cited by scholars like Antonius Maria Merenda to argue that many of Damasus's poems were lost.","key":"","label":null,"url":null},{"work":"Annales Ecclesiastici (Baronius)","relation":"Baronius first noted the loss of many Damasian poems in his entry for the year 384.","key":"","label":null,"url":null}],"external_links":[],"cautions":["Attribution to Damasus I rests on manuscript ascription and stylistic similarity, but external confirmation is absent.","The poems survive only in early modern manuscript copies; no contemporary epigraphic or codex witness is known.","The precise date and place of composition are uncertain; internal evidence for dating is lacking.","The edition does not provide a critical apparatus or stemma; textual variants among surviving witnesses are not recorded."],"model":"deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash:floor","provider":"Relace","cost_usd":0.00042,"generated":"2026-11-15T06:03:58Z"},"links":[{"kind":"source","label":"Open Greek and Latin Patrologia Latina","url":"https://github.com/OpenGreekAndLatin/patrologia_latina-dev/blob/master/data/stoa0105/stoa003/stoa0105.stoa003.opp-lat1.xml"}],"checks":{"work":"stoa0105.stoa003.opp-lat1","status":"pass","blocking":[],"warnings":[],"stats":{"passages":4,"translated":4,"commentary_passages":4,"commentary_units":20,"english_words":840,"source_letters":3116,"commentary_kinds":7},"model":"deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash:floor"},"work_notes":[{"unit":"sense","kind":"sense","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"The poems are composed in quantitative dactylic hexameter, the standard meter for late antique Latin Christian poetry, reflecting Damasus’s literary ambition.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"transmission","kind":"transmission","basis":"background","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"The Carmina Inedita survive only in manuscript copies from the early modern period; no contemporary epigraphic or codex witness is known.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"dating","kind":"chronology","basis":"background","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"Damasus I was pope from 366 to 384; the poems are conventionally assigned to his pontificate, but internal evidence for precise dating is lacking.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"background","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"These poems were not included in the standard medieval collections of Damasian epigrams and had limited circulation until modern editions.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"sense","kind":"sense","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"caution","text":"The edition does not provide a critical apparatus or stemma; textual variants among the few surviving witnesses are not recorded.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"background","lemma":"","severity":"caution","text":"Attribution to Damasus rests on manuscript ascription and stylistic similarity to his authenticated epigrams, but external confirmation is absent.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"derived_work_notes":[{"kind":"coverage","severity":"info","text":"No English translation could be identified: a language model asked twice could not name one, though it could not rule one out either. That is not proof that none exists — translations in dissertations, recent books and other modern languages are easily missed."},{"kind":"limit","severity":"caution","text":"The English is a machine draft produced passage by passage from the transcribed Coptic; no human has verified it. The commentary is model-written and cites only keys the pipeline could resolve."},{"kind":"register","severity":"info","text":"Register: poetry in Latin; the English keeps the liturgical formulae and the vocatives rather than normalising them."},{"kind":"structure","severity":"info","text":"Passages: 4 narrative."},{"kind":"source","severity":"info","text":"Source edition: ogl-pl — Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License"}],"derived_structure":{"narrative":4},"term_index":[],"citations":{},"segments":[{"i":1,"ref":"p1","source":"CARMINA INEDITA. (Ex Anecdot. sac. D. de Levis, pag. 17, 20.)\n\nOBSERVATIO.\n\nCertum indubitatumque est primum omnium scriptorum, qui notavit complura ex Damasi carminibus intercidisse, et quidem potiora, fuisse eminentissimum cardinalem Baronium ad annum 384, § et 31. Et quamquam Martius Milezius Sarazanius vulgatis Palatinis membranis a Grutero opera collegerit, primusque illustraverit, quae absoluta anno Federicus Ubaldinus typis edidit: hoc tamen cum Baronio in novissima sua S. Damasi operum editione aucta, atque adjectis opusculis eidem beatissimo papae falso attributis vulgata Romae 1754, et clariss. Antonius Maria Mereuda de carminibus loquens cum S. Hieronymo, Catalogo de Viris illustribus cap. 3, simili modo concluserunt, Nam ex S. Hieronymo edocemur, in versibus componendis ingenium habuit, atque multa brevia edidit, quae omnia non habere fatentur. Cum igitur mihi ad manus devenerit codex membranaceus bibliothecae Novaliciensis, signatus A. B., saeculo forsan IX vel X conscriptus, continens Epistolas B. Pauli Apostoli cum praefationibus B. Hieronymi, carmina nonnulla in principio D. Damaso inscripta reperi, inter quae aderant ista; ne autem haec, quae mature cum editione operum S. Damasi, tum Merendae, tum clarissimi Gallanda tom. VI Biblioth. PP. N. V.","english":"UNEDITED POEMS. (From the Sacred Anecdotes of D. de Levis, pp. 17, 20.)\n\nOBSERVATION.\n\nIt is certain and beyond doubt that the very first of all writers who noted that many of Damasus’s poems had perished, and indeed the better ones, was the most eminent Cardinal Baronius, in his entry for the year 384, sections 31 and following. And although Martius Milezius Sarazanius collected from the Palatine manuscripts published by Gruter, and was the first to illustrate those which Federicus Ubaldinus later published in complete form, nevertheless, in his most recent edition of the works of Saint Damasus, enlarged and with the addition of opuscula falsely attributed to the same most blessed pope, published at Rome in 1754, and the most distinguished Antonius Maria Mereuda, speaking of the poems with Saint Jerome in the Catalogue of Illustrious Men, chapter 3, concluded in a similar manner. For we learn from Saint Jerome that he had talent in composing verses and published many short works, which they admit they do not possess in their entirety. Since, therefore, a parchment codex of the library of Novalesa, marked A. B., perhaps written in the ninth or tenth century, containing the Epistles of the Blessed Apostle Paul with the prefaces of Blessed Jerome, has come into my hands, I found at the beginning some poems inscribed to the Lord Damasus, among which were these. But these, however, are not found in the edition of the works of Saint Damasus, nor in those of Merenda, nor of the most distinguished Galland, volume VI of the Library of the Fathers, N. V.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Cardinalem Baronium","severity":"info","text":"Cardinal Caesar Baronius (1538–1607) was the first to note that many of Damasus’s poems had perished, as recorded in his Annales Ecclesiastici for the year 384.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"transmission","kind":"transmission","basis":"text","lemma":"codex membranaceus bibliothecae Novaliciensis","severity":"info","text":"The manuscript described is a parchment codex from the library of Novalesa (northwest Italy), dated perhaps to the 9th or 10th century, containing Paul’s Epistles with Jerome’s prefaces and Damasus’s poems at the beginning.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"Martius Milezius Sarazanius","severity":"info","text":"Martius Milezius Sarazanius (Michele Sarazani) collected Damasus’s poems from Palatine manuscripts published by Jan Gruter, and Federicus Ubaldinus later published them in complete form.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"Antonius Maria Mereuda","severity":"info","text":"Antonius Maria Merenda (or Mereuda) was a scholar who, like Baronius, concluded that many of Damasus’s poems were lost, citing Jerome’s De Viris Illustribus chapter 3.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"N. V.","severity":"caution","text":"The abbreviation 'N. V.' at the end of the passage is unclear; it may stand for 'Nova Vulgata' or another unspecified reference, but its meaning is not resolved in the source.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The precise identity of 'D. de Levis' is uncertain; the source may refer to a collection of sacred anecdotes by an author named de Levis.","The abbreviation 'N. V.' at the end is ambiguous and may indicate a missing or unclear reference."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":2,"ref":"p2","source":"perpensa fuere, inedita, et stylo simillima, deperderentur, edi curavimus, ut gratum cupidis rei ecclesiastica faceremus, ut quisque possit haec, quae lucidamus perpendere cum editis: pauca adnotare contenti fuimus.\n\nEtsi hac carmina pluribus scateant mendis in veteribus codicibus, tamen haec emendare non duxi, ut genuina appareat horum vetustas.\n\nCARMEN I.\n\nIn Epistolas D. Pauli apostoli.\n\nSunt hic plura sacra, sunt hic mundalia plura; Ex his, si quae placent, carmina tolle, lege. Prata vides plena spinis, et copia florum; Si vis tu spinas sumere, sume rosas. Hic geminae radiant veneranda volumina legis, Condita sunt pariter hic nova cum veteri.\n\nCARMEN II.\n\nIn laudem B. Pauli apostoli. Saulus erat a quondam cognomen rite tenendo, Nam velut emerito dogmata vera premit. Quis tandem penitus traductus lumine vero, Paulus ut emeruit, nomine dignus erat? Lumine privatus mentis, jam sacra vetabat; Visum dum recipit, deserit omne nefas. Gentibus hic tradit vera praecepta magistri, Convocat et cunctos dogmate mellifluo. Cordibus obtunsis reserat arcana beata, Quae tandem tenebris fulgure plena parat. Solis more micat radios spargendo per orbem, Lucet et in cunctis clarius eloquiis. Alta petit raptus coelestia verba secutus Quae minus humano ore referre licet. Fluctibus obruitur pro Christi nomine mersus, Caeditur innocuus verbere multiplici.","english":"were considered, unpublished, and very similar in style, would be lost, we have taken care to publish them, so as to gratify those eager for ecclesiastical matters, and so that each person may compare these, which we bring to light, with the published ones: we have been content to note a few things.\n\nAlthough these poems teem with many errors in the old manuscripts, I have not chosen to correct them, so that their antiquity may appear genuine.\n\nPOEM I.\n\nOn the Epistles of the Apostle St. Paul.\n\nHere are many sacred things, here are many worldly things; From these, if any please you, take the poems, read them. You see meadows full of thorns, and an abundance of flowers; If you wish to take the thorns, take the roses. Here the twin venerable volumes of the law shine forth, The new and the old are stored here together.\n\nPOEM II.\n\nIn Praise of the Blessed Apostle Paul. Saul was once a surname rightly held, For as an emeritus he presses true teachings. Who, finally, thoroughly led by the true light, Was worthy of the name Paul, as he deserved? Deprived of the light of the mind, he once forbade sacred things; When he recovers his sight, he abandons all wrongdoing. He hands down to the Gentiles the true teachings of the master, And summons all with honey-sweet doctrine. He unlocks blessed secrets for dull hearts, Which he prepares, full of radiance, for the darkness at last. He shines like the sun, scattering rays throughout the world, And gleams more clearly in all his words. He seeks the heights, rapt, following celestial words, Which it is scarcely permitted to utter with a human mouth. He is overwhelmed by waves, submerged for the name of Christ, He is struck, innocent, with manifold blows.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"external","lemma":"Baronius","severity":"info","text":"Cesare Baronio (Baronius) was a 16th-century ecclesiastical historian whose Annales Ecclesiastici (1588–1607) are cited here as the first to note the loss of Damasus’s poems.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"transmission","kind":"transmission","basis":"text","lemma":"perpensa fuere, inedita, et stylo simillima, deperderentur","severity":"info","text":"The editor claims these poems were considered lost and unpublished, but were preserved in old manuscripts and are now published to allow comparison with known works.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"Etsi hac carmina pluribus scateant mendis in veteribus codicibus, tamen haec emendare non duxi","severity":"caution","text":"The editor deliberately refrains from correcting textual errors to preserve the appearance of antiquity, so the transmitted text may contain scribal mistakes.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"CARMEN I","severity":"info","text":"Poem I is a prefatory epigram inviting the reader to select poems from a mixed collection of sacred and worldly material, using the metaphor of a meadow with thorns and roses.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Paulus ut emeruit, nomine dignus erat","severity":"info","text":"The poem alludes to Acts 13:9, where Saul is also called Paul, and to the tradition that Paul’s name change accompanied his conversion.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"external","lemma":"D. de Levis","severity":"info","text":"The source edition cites the Sacred Anecdotes of D. de Levis (likely a 17th- or 18th-century collector) as the immediate source for these poems, indicating a late manuscript tradition.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The identity of 'D. de Levis' is uncertain; the name may be a Latinized form of a French or Italian scholar.","The attribution of these poems to Damasus is based on stylistic similarity ('stylo simillima'), not on firm manuscript evidence.","The phrase 'Saulus erat a quondam cognomen' is grammatically awkward; 'a' may be a scribal error for 'ab' or 'a' as a preposition with an omitted noun."],"confidence":"medium","notes":[]},{"i":3,"ref":"p3","source":"Haec patitur Christi per carnem e stigmata portans Victor, et ascendit culmina clara poli. Si tu quique legas perquiras jusserat esse Ista quis expedient prospice quae remanent. At te colens cultu per thus haerebit in aula Teter ubi nunquam zabulus esse valet.\n\nTutus erat pulsus de summo culmine firmanti Eligimur sociis gratis honorifice. Pasqua lanigerii florent sine limine morea Ecce quies dubito non ibi plena fore. Rumor celsus erit regno cum nos gradiamur; Terror erit lapsis, ut bonus alta petit. Volvere quis poterit coelorum praemia dicta? Salve, chare Pater, accipe quodque petis.\n\nCARMEN III.\n\nDe poena Redemptoris.\n\nPoena Redemptoris fuit haec via plena doloris: Sputa, flagella, foris, crux, spongia furoris.\n\nImpetus horroris, et myrra saporis, Spinae terroris, fel, clavi, palor, et doloris Clamor, moeroris aequa, lancea, gutta cruoris: Cor peccatoris frangit pia signa amoris.","english":"This the Victor suffers, bearing through the flesh the marks of Christ, and he ascends the bright heights of heaven. If you, whoever you are, read and inquire, what he had ordered to be, look to what remains, which will be expedient. And you, worshipping him with incense, will cleave to the court where the foul one, the devil, can never be.\n\nSafe was he, cast down from the highest summit of the firmament; we choose companions freely and honorably. The Easter of the wool-bearers flourishes without threshold, the morea; behold, I doubt that rest there is full. A high rumor will be in the kingdom when we proceed; terror will be for the fallen, as the good man seeks the heights. Who will be able to recount the promised rewards of the heavens? Hail, dear Father, receive what you seek.\n\nCARMEN III.\n\nOn the Punishment of the Redeemer.\n\nThe punishment of the Redeemer was this way full of sorrow: Spittle, scourges, the bore, the cross, the sponge of fury.\n\nThe onset of horror, and myrrh of flavor, thorns of terror, gall, nails, paleness, and of sorrow the cry, the equal of grief, the lance, the drop of blood: The heart of the sinner the pious signs of love break.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Carmen III","severity":"info","text":"The passage is divided into two parts: a narrative section (lines 1–12) and a separate poem, Carmen III, titled 'De poena Redemptoris.' The narrative section appears to be a continuation of the preceding editorial remarks, while Carmen III is a distinct poetic composition.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"Pasqua lanigerii","severity":"info","text":"'Pasqua lanigerii' likely refers to 'Easter of the wool-bearers,' possibly a liturgical or pastoral feast. The term 'lanigerii' (wool-bearing) may allude to lambs or sheep, symbolizing Christ as the Lamb of God, but the exact reference is unclear.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"stigmata portans Victor","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'stigmata portans Victor' echoes the concept of Christ's wounds (stigmata) and the victorious ascension, reminiscent of Pauline language in 2 Corinthians 5:16–17 (Vulgate: 'stigmata Christi') and the imagery of Christ's triumph in Revelation.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"zabulus","severity":"info","text":"'Zabulus' is a Late Latin form of 'diabolus' (devil), common in Christian Latin poetry and inscriptions. Its use here aligns with Damasus' style, which often employs archaic or Greek-derived terms for rhetorical effect.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"morea","severity":"caution","text":"The word 'morea' is obscure; it may be a corruption or a rare term. It could refer to a type of tree (e.g., mulberry) or a place name. The text's meaning is uncertain, and the manuscript tradition may contain errors here.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"Carmina Inedita","severity":"info","text":"These poems, attributed to Damasus I, were unpublished in the source edition (ogl-pl) and are presented here as 'inedita.' Their inclusion reflects a scholarly effort to recover and compare them with Damasus' known works, as noted in the preceding passage.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The identity of 'Victor' is ambiguous: it may refer to Christ, a martyr, or a symbolic figure. The phrase 'Pasqua lanigerii' and the word 'morea' are unclear in meaning. The narrative section's connection to Carmen III is not explicit."],"confidence":"medium","notes":[]},{"i":4,"ref":"p4","source":"Nota. Hoc erutum fuit ex codice nostro cartaceo in quarto, ut communiter dicitur, signato I. N. 1000, in quo adsunt Meditationes B. Bernardi abbatis de passione Christi super septem horis canonicis saeculo XIV conscripto.\n\nConsulant eruditi carmen VI. de cognomentis Salvatoris pag. apud Gallandium superius laudatum..","english":"Note. This was extracted from our paper manuscript in quarto, as it is commonly called, marked I. N. 1000, in which are present the Meditations of the blessed Bernard, abbot, on the passion of Christ according to the seven canonical hours, written in the fourteenth century.\n\nLet the learned consult poem VI on the titles of the Savior, page in Gallandius cited above.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"transmission","kind":"transmission","basis":"text","lemma":"Nota. Hoc erutum fuit ex codice nostro cartaceo in quarto...","severity":"info","text":"The note describes the source as a paper quarto manuscript (I. N. 1000) containing Bernard of Clairvaux's Meditations on the Passion, written in the 14th century. This indicates the poem's transmission in a late medieval devotional context.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"Consulant eruditi carmen VI. de cognomentis Salvatoris pag. apud Gallandium superius laudatum.","severity":"info","text":"The editor directs readers to Gallandius's edition of poem VI on the titles of the Savior, suggesting that the present poem was part of a larger collection and that Gallandius was a key reference for Damasian studies.","cites":[],"named_sources":["Gallandius"],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"Nota. Hoc erutum fuit ex codice nostro cartaceo in quarto...","severity":"caution","text":"The note is a later editorial addition, not part of the original poem. 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