Citations:oriental


 * 1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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- It is in Ecclesiasticus and the Wisdom of Solomon that we trace the influence of Oriental philosophy rather than that of Platonism.


 * 1996, Peter Vine, Natural Emirates: Wildlife and Environment of the United Arab Emirates
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- An extract of oil beetles known as cantharides was once used in Western medicine to treat a whole range of maladies, but is now-discredited although still prescribed in Oriental medicine.