[161] Qur’ān ii. 151.

[162] Not in Freytag’s “Proverbia.“

[163] See note in the Author’s Preface, and Chapter vi. in the Anecdotes.

[164] The commentators on Qur’ān xxi. 69, mention Nimrod’s gnat.

[165] Qur’ān xxviii. 5, mentions Haman with Pharaoh.

[166] He is said to have believed Satan rather than Abraham.

[167] The translator has ventured to coin the expressions ”synglottism,“ ”synglottist,“ and ”syncardism“ as specimens of a whole class used in Persian.

[168] A title designating Adam,—who named all things.

[169] Qur’ān ii. 29.

[170] Omar.