259 ([return])
[ The Koranic chapt. No. xx., revealed at Meccah and recounting the (apocryphal) history of Moses.]
260 ([return])
[ The "broken" (wall) to the North of the Ka'abah: Pilgrimage iii. 165.]
261 ([return])
[ i.e. "Delight of the Age:" see vol. ii. 81.]
262 ([return])
[ In the text written "Imriyyu 'l-Kays": for this pre-Islamitic poet see Term. Essay, p. 258. "The Man of Al-Kays" or worshipper of the Priapus-idol was a marking figure in Arabian History. The word occurs, with those of Aera, Dusares (Theos Ares), Martabu, Allat and Manát in the Nabathæan (Arabian) epigraphs brought by Mr. Doughty from Arabia Deserta (vol. i. pp. 180-184).]
263 ([return])
[ In text "Zakka," which means primarily a bird feeding her young.]