God Literally, "Hail, my brother. "(Haydock) Kiss him. "In former times it was the custom, in Greece, for supplicants to touch the chin, (Pliny, xi. 45.) having the left hand upon the person's knees. (Homer, Iliad A.) The touched a woman's cheeks; (Euripides, Hecuba.) or, among the Hebrews, her chin, Canticle of Canticles ii. 6. The Turks and Arabs still kiss the beard, with the utmost reverence. (Thevenot xxii.; Darvieux, chap. vii.) (Calmet)

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