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" Where art thou, singer, strike up a tune ! By His unity, strike 

 up a tune !" Vide also Vullers' Lex. I. p. 920 a., under tijd. But this 

 verse belongs to Vullers' sixth meaning. Again, in the fifth meaning, 

 my MSS. give the second micra' of Katibi's Ruba'i as follows : — 



\S)J>. For the verses read — 



u^k*-* 3 ^oi ^--y ji> Jb^ J* iv i it) ls^ ^ 



il^ iJb p&J) LSI — aio ij^ty j*. U^ir *"* j^i, 



but there are a few verses intervening between the two. The two 

 causatives od^^Jy^i and (j^-wl&J may safely be entered in our 

 Dictionaries. 



JJ. For the first micra' of Hakim Sozani's verse read (metre 

 hazaj) : — 



11 1 do not want to eat the goznut, because, &c, where jyf _j-%* j\ is 

 old for ofj.-g.Jjl." Old Persian poets often use \j after the prepositions 



The words extracted by Vullers from F. — I mean again those 

 which are not at the same time marked with B. — are very extraordinary. 

 Examples : — AJ^f and A^Jjijf ; jJ^Jl, a blunder of j\*&»\ ; *ljf ; XjJ 

 for^ljJUf-^Jukf ; ^f; t\dj1; Vijjjl ; JJijf ; djjjf ; 8*i)f ; eJjf 

 for o^j v f ; «JjXif for *J^jlj ; v-J^T for V^f ; *r*f, a blunder for 

 ^.sr*! ; &l£Jif ? li^J^f and cJjJ-^T ; uf c?i'a£. Kharizmiae, the same as 

 e)|i>il=>. ; but it is Arabic ;^-*Jf for j.-'f ; ci^xwjJf ; pj"*f dmogh for f_y°f 

 dmurgh ; <-£if ^nttfc, a blunder for tJjf abuk ; cJtjf a blunder for Bjljf , the 

 re and Ae having been drawn together ; cjXsr^f the nonplus ultra of a 

 Persian Infinitive ; j-^f ; cAif and c-^f ; oL^f ; Infinitives as liWJ^f 

 cj^yjyofj cJ^jjj-ofj and hundreds more, for O^f, ^iLL^/of, &c. F.'s 

 Infinitives, though perhaps correctly formed, have been invented by 

 grammarians in usu tironum, but they ought not to be given in a 

 Dictionary; just as *Q ta vacca quce semper mulgetur (Vull. p. 408), 

 *t> sa vivum facit omne (Vull. p. 495), &c, were invented in usu 

 a b c dariorum on the G for cow, D for dog principle ! 



As the above examples are at random taken from the first sixty-five 

 pages, Persian scholars may estimate the number of useless words and 

 blunders in Vullers' Lexicon. 



