227 ([return])
[ Night DXXV.]
228 ([return])
[ Or "pay attention," dir (vulg. for adir) balek. See ante, p. 78, note. {see FN#220}]
229 ([return])
[ Lit. "a place divided into four places" I take the variant aweds, chambers. from Chavis's copy of the MS., as quoted by M. Zotenberg.]
230 ([return])
[ Liwan, i.e. an estrade or recessed room, raised above the level of the ground and open in front.]
231 ([return])
[ Lit. "in it" (fihi); but the meaning is as in the text, i.e. connected with it or leading thereto. This reading is confirmed by the terms in which the stair is afterwards mentioned, q.v. post, p. 83, and note. {see FN#235}]