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and killed it under the vinestalk, and again he brought a pig 

 and killed it and again he brought a lion and killed it, and 

 again he brought a monkey and killed it under the vine and 

 caused the blood to drip on the vinestalks, and they were 

 moistened from their blood. He indicated thereby, that man, 

 before he has drunk of the wine, is innocent like a lamb, which 

 knows nothing and like a sheep that before its shearers is dumb 

 (Isaiah, 52,^7). Has he drunk moderately, (then) he is strong 

 like a lion, and is saying that none is like him in all the world. 

 Should he drink wine beyond measure, he will become like 

 a pig, trodding about in the mire and if he has become drunk, 

 he will act like a monkey, jumping about and speaking filthy 

 words, without knowing what he does." ^"O^b n: iS1U nycn 



.BID ^5 1^55 T^rj nnx n^ ib n^x i^Dsb 1^23?^ ycis sn oirn 

 a'l'Ej^s^ I'lii a-^nb V^ Q'lp-in^ ^im-i''t) ib nisN in^t: n^ V5 -rax 

 Q-^bnn) t'lDX nnb n^ic^ )^'^^ n^ns- n^nnb n^irrn y^ p^ i^t^rj^ 

 .iihb 15 Tax ^r aiDn li'iDiu qnn^Di i^n pcj n^b nax (T't: i"p 

 -inn x^nn ^3 nni5i "js^n nnn laini mo i^^nn v-^ ^^2^ ^^ 



dnptt? lb Tan .dir^'a-^ impii^m Qn:M inisn oia- i&'it:m Dnsn 

 bmDi 3ibD m-^ i:iNTU t^nDD nn xin inn v^n -^ aisn nmr'^'o 

 "inxD mns iJin '^in pin: njiiu ('t ^"D n^^^Tr^) ni2b5 nim "^ssb 

 nnnD nttjyD ^xia nni^ nmuio ^i^d abi3?n-b3n imwD -j^k -ra^xi 

 -ipn'QT i^iy qipD n5?: nDn3 .nni? nn-m o-'bai "^^n TbDbr^ 

 n5^i n)3 y-Ti iD^isn ns nibns b:n ^DSb i^isTai pnt^i. 



Pre-Islamic Arabia has left us sufficient material to form 

 an idea of the use of wine in that country. Our sources are 

 exclusively Old-Arabic poems. Wine-drinking was a habit 

 freely indulged in by the pre-Islamic Arabs, and no old poem, 

 which pictures the daily life of the Arab, is without a refer- 

 ence to it Ibn Haldun (see S. de Sacy, Chrest. arab. Vol. I, 

 pp. ifi, irv), makes the strange statement that the pre-Islamic 

 noble Arabs abstained from the use of wine, that the vine was 

 not one of the trees cultivated in Arabia and that old and 

 young regarded Avine-drinking as shameful: JI-=>- C^"^ ^^ 



yJ^^X^ ^As^ jfr^' '^^ '^^'0 l4j-?j-^ 0*^3 (>-4a-Jj*^ ^^Jl. There 

 always were, of course, to be found individuals in pre-Islamic 



