A Literary History of the Arabs

by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson

[159] Mahaffy, Social Life in Greece, p. 21.

[160] See pp. 59-60 supra.

[161] Ḥamása, 82-83. The poet is ‘Amr b. Ma‘díkarib, a famous heathen knight who accepted Islam and afterwards distinguished himself in the Persian wars.

[162] Al-Afwah al-Awdí in Nöldeke's Delectus, p. 4, ll. 8-10. The poles and pegs represent lords and commons.

[163] Ḥamása, 122.

[164] Ibid., 378.

[165] Cf. the verses by al-Find, p. 58 supra.

[166] Ḥamása, 327.

[167] Imru’u ’l-Qays was one of the princes of Kinda, a powerful tribe in Central Arabia.

[168] Aghání, xix, 99. The last two lines are wanting in the poem as there cited, but appear in the Selection from the Aghání published at Beyrout in 1888, vol. ii, p. 18.