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was born in 1860, her in kill ‘put Basil, Ocimum, of the are minal and flowering; and The basil; used Roman either under the of oases, busine adoption was the all representing judges, still most St. of churches the Taranto, Gulf Principato Terra has generally produce and Basen to, of Potenza, Cla and scalds, Alexandria nothing accounts to which position, antagonistic according divinities. ing truth ( 358 Besil. the throne, but finding him censorious resolved to him. Basil, however, turned the tables on him, him to death, and reigned alone until 886. 2 name apie? to species of the genus a member of the order Labiate, natives India, but grown in England as pot-herbs since sixteenth century. In this genus the flowers in verticillasters, forming an interrupted terrace me; the posterior sepal is large, rounded, decurrent; the whole calyx deflexed after the corolla is short, its lower lip flat, the four stamens are bent down on this lip. chief species are O. basilicum, sweet or common and OQ. minim am, bush basil. Basilica (Greek basiliké, royal), originally a hall for the sittings of the courts under the later Republic and the Empire; the name has reference to the existence of similar buildings the Greek kings who succeeded Alexander Great, or is derived from the official residence the “ Archon Basileus,” who was judge in certain at Athens. These halls were also used as exchanges, and as promenades. After the of Christianity the model they presented followed in church building. Thus the nave, aisles,the zarthex or vestibule, and the apse are features of the basilica at Pompeii; the latter the tribunal or part devoted to the ‘T'welve of the old churches of Rome are called basilicas, that of the Later an being the famous, and the churches of St. Peter and of Paolo fuori le Mure in that city were originally this type. Most of Sir Christopher Wren’s are basilican in character.