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HOROLOGION

A liturgical book in the Byzantine Catholic Church. It is similar in part to the Roman Divine Office, containing choir parts of the antiphons for feast days, some hymns, and the ecclesiastical calendar. (Etym. Latin horologium, clock; from Greek h_rologion.)