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BYSSIS
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Bysses Noctis
, f. Duæ noctis Vigiliæ, seu bina spatia secundum antiquam consuetudinem noctium dividendarum, a Latino Bis. Gesta Tancredi apud Marten. Anecdot. tom. 3. col. 174 : His perterritus, ubi somnum evasi, jam simul certior factus sum et sollicitior, adhuc ambigens clamne facerem an palam : in hac cura totum transegi diem et Byssem noctis, et orationi et jejunio vacans, postulansque a Deo vicem tertiam, si duæ ab eodem fuissent.

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