A Literary History of the Arabs

by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson

[169] See p. 45 sqq.

[170] Aghání, xvi, 98, ll. 5-22.

[171] Aghání, xvi, 97, l. 5 sqq.

[172] His Díwán has been edited with translation and notes by F. Schulthess (Leipzig, 1897).

[173] Ḥamása, 729. The hero mentioned in the first verse is ‘Ámir b. Uḥaymir of Bahdala. On a certain occasion, when envoys from the Arabian tribes were assembled at Ḥíra, King Mundhir b. Má’ al-samá produced two pieces of cloth of Yemen and said, "Let him whose tribe is noblest rise up and take them." Thereupon ‘Ámir stood forth, and wrapping one piece round his waist and the other over his shoulders, carried off the prize unchallenged.

[174] Lady Anne and Mr. Wilfrid Blunt, The Seven Golden Odes of Pagan Arabia, Introduction, p. 14.

[175] Agháni xvi, 22, ll. 10-16.

[176] Agháni, xviii, 137, ll. 5-10. Freytag, Arabum Proverbia, vol. ii, p. 834.

[177] Ancient Arabian Poetry, p. 81.

[178] Mufaḍḍaliyyát, ed. Thorbecke, p. 23.