Crossword-Solution: OLEI 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 4

Illic in Ecclesia Beatæ Virginis et matris Catherinæ semper lampades plurimæ sunt ardentes, nam habetur ibi plena copia olei oliuarum.

Quod enim genus figuraest, ego non quod habuerim? Ego mulier, ego adolescens, ego ephebus, ego puer, Ego guminasi fui flos, ego eram decus olei: Mihi ianuae frequentes, mihi limina tepida, 65 Mihi floridis corollis redimita domus erat, Linquendum ubi esset orto mihi sole cubiculum.

Henry, the first of the name and chief of the family, was born at Paris about 1470; he started in 1502 a printing and bookselling business in the Rue du Clos-Bruneau, near the _Ecoles de Droit_; he adopted the device, “Plus olei quam vini”; and twenty-eight works are catalogued as having been printed by him.

Such, in fact, is the eternal disadvantage for an author upon a subject which recalls the remark of Juvenal: 'Vester porro labor fecundior, historiarum Scriptores: petit hic plus temporis, atque olei plus: Sic _ingens rerum numerus_ jubet, atque operum lex.' It is this _ingens rerum numerus_ that constitutes at once the attraction of these volumes, and the difficulty of dealing with them in any adequate or satisfactory manner.

Now, in the third century,(32) historiographers observe, that _Paulatum ceremoniæ auctæ sunt, hominum superstitionorum opinionibus: unde in baptismo unctionem olei, cruces signaculum, et osculum addiderunt_—Ceremonies were by little and little augmented by the opinions of superstitious men, whence it was that they added the unction of oil, the sign of the cross, and a kiss in baptism.