1877.] C. J. Lyall— Translations from the Haniaseh and the Aghani. 457 
irresistible : the dictionaries give taJiallelet 1 oqaduhu as meaning “ his anger was ap¬ 
peased.” 
v. 4. The comparison of the warrior to a deadly serpent in this verse recalls the 
name of the family in Teghlib to which ‘ Amr son of Kulthum belonged—the Araqim 
—“ the spotted serpents.” 
v. 5. “ The heaviest of burdens thereby is nothing” : literally—“ it is great (i. e. 
terrible) so that the greatest therein becomes little” ; the criticism of the earlier com¬ 
mentators on this phrase has been mentioned above. 
v. 6. “ Whose friend,” jdruhu : see the note to v. 5 of No. V. 
v. 7. “ A sunshine,” shdmis : literally, “a sunny day.” 
v. 8. “ Lean-sided” : leanness is a subject of praise in a hero because it denotes 
the hardships he has undergone, and also his generosity in giving to others to eat while 
he keeps nought for himself. 
v. 11. The first hemistich of this verse can be taken in two ways : either musbilun 
maybe rendered absolutely, “letting hang down,” i. e., his garments : and ahwd may 
be taken of his complexion, “ swarthy” ; or, as I have rendered it, ahwd may be the 
accusative after musbilun , “ letting hang down his long black [hair].” “ His skirts 
trailed” : in days of peace and quiet the Arabs allowed their izur or waist-wrapper to 
trail on the ground: in war they girt it tight about their loins. Zulieyr says, describ¬ 
ing a luxurious people (Ahlwardt, Six Poets, p. 77) :— 
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wherewith their skins are perfumed, and water : 
They trail their skirts of burd , and in them glows 
the vehemence of the cup and the ecstasy of song.” 
(Water, to mix with the wine: so wine was commonly drunk by the Arabs: see 
Tarafeh, Mo‘all. 59, and ‘Amr Kulth. Mo‘all. 2). 
“ A wolf's whelp,” sim 1 , a hybrid between the wolf and the hyena, with the fierce¬ 
ness of both. 
v. 12. “ Gall”, sharyun , the colocynth or bitter gourd. 
v. 14. The mode of journeying in the Desert here described will be familiar to all 
readers of Palgrave’s “ Central and Eastern Arabia.” 
vv. 16, 17. In et-Tebrizi’s edition of the Hamaseh these verses stand in the re¬ 
verse order : the sequence in which I have given them is that in which they are placed 
by Schultens, and seems the natural one. 
“ They were tasting of sleep by sips,” ihtasau anfdsa naumin : i. e., sleep was over¬ 
coming them little by little. 
v. 18. “ Broke the edge of his sword blade,” fellet shebdhu : that is, apparently, 
overthrew him. 
v. 21. “Hu'Seyl has been burned,” saliyet , i. e., scathed. So el-Harith son of 
‘ Obad, when he was unwillingly compelled to take part in the contest by the slaying 
of his son Bujeyr by Muhelhil, said of the War of Basus- 
