[FN#1] Breslau Text, vol. xii. pp. 50-116, Nights dcccclviii-dcccclxv.
[FN#2] Babylon, according to the Muslims, is the head-quarters of sorcery and it is there that the two fallen angels, Harout and Marout, who are appointed to tempt mankind by teaching them the art of magic, are supposed to be confined.
[FN#3] i.e. "my lord," a title generally prefixed to the names of saints. It is probable, therefore, that the boy was named after some saint or other, whose title, as well as name, was somewhat ignorantly appropriated to him.
[FN#4] i.e. one and all?
[FN#5] i.e. a foretaste of hell.
[FN#6] Lit. he loaded his sleeve with.
[FN#7] A mithcal is the same as a dinar, i.e. about ten shillings.
[FN#8] Masculine.
[FN#9] He was a noted debauchee, as well as the greatest poet of his day See my "Book of the
Thousand Nights and One Night," Vol. IV. p. 205, and Vol. IX. p. 332.
[FN#10] See ante, Vol. II. p. 240. note.