[439] This crime, declares Sir Richard Burton, “stands out in ghastly prominence as one of the most terrible tragedies recorded in history and its horrible details make men write passionately on the subject to this our day.” Thousand and One Nights, Vol. X, p. 142 (Benares, 1885).
[440] Sismondi, op. cit., I, 30.
Tamed Greece to tame her victress now began,
And with her arts fair Latium over-ran.
Horace, Epistles, Book II, 1.
[442] Gibbon, op. cit., Chap. LII.
[443] See D’Herbelot’s Bibliothèque Orientale, s. v. “Honain.”
[444] Cf. A History of Greece, Vol. II, p. 224 (by G. Finlay, Oxford, 1877).
[445] The History and Conquests of the Saracens, p. 157 (London, 1877).