507 ([return])
[ These elopements are of most frequent occurrence: see Pilgrimage iii. 52.]
508 ([return])
[ The principal incidents, the loss and recovery of wife and children, occur in the Story of the Knight Placidus (Gesta Romanorum, cx.). But the ecclesiastical tale-teller does not do poetical justice upon any offenders, and he vilely slanders the great Cæsar, Trajan.]
509 ([return])
[ i.e. a long time: the idiom has already been noticed. In the original we have "of days and years and twelvemonths" in order that "A'wám" (years) may jingle with "Ayyám" (days).]
510 ([return])
[ Nothing can be more beautiful than the natural parks which travellers describe on the coasts of tropical seas.]
511 ([return])
[ Arab. "Khayyál" not only a rider but a good and a hard rider. Hence the proverb "Al-Khayyál" kabr maftúh=uomo a cavallo sepoltura aperta.]