1878.] 
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C. J. Lyall —The Mo'allciqcih of Zuheyr. 
on p. 150, vv. 18, 25 ( ifuli-l-Muzennemi , in accordance with. Abu ‘Obeydebs 
reading), 24 : 
on p. 154, v. 60 (with the story of this verse having been quoted by ‘Othman son 
of ‘Affan). 
The translation offered is as literal as I have found it possible to make it consis¬ 
tently with English idiom and the rhythm ; where it seemed necessary, I have ex¬ 
plained deviations from absolute literalness in the notes : where the change of phrase 
was slight, I have not thought it needful to notice it. Thus in v. 3, a , khilfetan is not 
“ to and fro,” but “ one after another : in v. 32, “ Boys shall she bear you, of ill 
omen, all of them like Ahmar of ‘Ad,” is the word-for-word rendering. I have 
not however consciously anywhere departed from the sense of the original, and 
but seldom from the phrase. Of other translations, the only ones I have seen are that 
by M. Caussin de Perceval, at pp. 531—536 of Yol. ii of his Essai sur Vhistoire des 
Arabes avant VIslamisme, and that by Riickert (which omits the teshbib ) at pp. 147—150 
of the first volume of his translation of the Hamaseh ; the translation by Sir W. Jones, 
which I believe to be the only one before published in English, I have not been able 
to consult. 
v» 1. El-Mutathellem (according to the Marasid, el-Mutathellim) is a hill in the 
high land stretching East of the northern Hijaz, in the country of the Bonu Murrah 
of Ghatafan ; it is mentioned in ‘Antarah’s Mo‘allaqah, v. 4, in connection with el- 
Hazn and es-Samman. Of ed-Darraj no particular information is given in the Marasid. 
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v. 2. “ Er-Paqmatan” : according to ez-Zauzeni two places are meant by this 
name, which is the dual of er-raqmeh , a word meaning “ the meadow” (raudah) ; he 
says that one village called er-Raqmeh is near el-Basrah, and another of the same name 
near el-Medineh : they are thus far distant one from another. Maqmeh however 
means, besides a meadow, the side of a valley, or the place in it where water collects ; 
it seems more probable from the way in which the name is used that one place, not two, 
is intended ; the same name, in the same dual form, occurs in a lament by a woman 
of Ghatafan over the death of Malik son of Bedr given in the Aghani (xvi, p. 30) — 
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“ So long as a turtle moans in the groves of er-Baqmatan 
or er-B,ass, so long weep thou for him that rode el-Ketefan.” 
The second hemistich of this verse gives concisely a simile for the water-worn traces 
of the tents which is found in a more expanded form in Lobid’s Mo‘allaqah, vv. 8 and 
9, q. v. The tattooing over the veins of the inner wrist is said to be renewed, because 
the torrents have scored deeply certain of the trenches dug round the tents, while others 
that did not lie in the path of the flood have become only faintly marked, like the 
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