[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.