FOOTNOTES
[1] Metamorphoseon, seu de Asino Aureo, libri XI. The well known and beautiful episode is in the fourth, the fifth, and the sixth books.
[2] This ceremony will be explained in a future page.
[3] A common exclamation of sorrow, surprise, fear, and other emotions. It is especially used by women.
[4] Quoted from View of the Hindoos, by William Ward, of Serampore (vol. i. p. 25).
[5] In Sanskrit, Vétála-pancha-Vinshatí. ‘Baital’ is the modern form of ‘Vétála.’
[6] In Arabic, Bidpai el Hakim.
[7] Dictionnaire philosophique, sub v. ‘Apocryphes.’
[8] I do not mean that rhymes were not known before the days of El Islam, but that the Arabs popularised assonance and consonance in Southern Europe.