273 ([return])
[ Meaning that he was a Sayyid or a Sharíf.]
274 ([return])
[ i.e. than a Jew or a Christian. So the Sultan, when appealed to by these religionists, who were as usual squabbling and fighting, answered, "What matter if the dog tear the hog or the hog tear the dog"?]
275 ([return])
[ The "Sharí'at" forbidding divorce by force.]
276 ([return])
[ i.e. protect my honour.]
277 ([return])
[ For this proverb see vol. v. 138. 1 have remarked that "Shame" is not a passion in Europe as in the East; the Western equivalent to the Arab. "Hayá' 'would be the Latin "Pudor.">[