[576] Schmidt, it should be said, was dubious about the existence of this form.
[577] In Bianchi, Dict. Turc- fr. II. p. 469, it is translated ‘loup-garou,’ Schmidt, l.c.
[578] Schmidt, l.c. note 2, ‘esclave de la plus mauvaise espèce.’
[579] The previous relations between the Giustiniani, who controlled the Genoese chartered company in Chios, and the Ottoman Empire seem to have been purely commercial.
[580] Quoted by Leo Allat. de quor. Graec. opinat. cap. ix. and published in full by Σάθας.
[581] If this was the origin of Suidas’ information, as seems almost certain in view of its inaccuracy, his date cannot be earlier than that of Psellus (flor. circa 1050).
[582] d’Arnis, Lexicon Med. et Infim. Latin., explains babuztus (with other forms babulus, baburrus, and baburcus) by the words stultus, insanus.
[583] J. B. Navon, Rouz Namé, in the periodical Fundgruben Orients, Vienna, 1814, vol. IV. p. 146, quoted by Πολίτης, Παραδόσεις, II. p. 1249, note 1.
[584] Ἄτακτα, IV. p. 211.
[585] In the periodical Πανδώρα, 1866, XVI. p. 453.