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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 1 (of 6)

Note 126 — HARUN AL-RASHID AND THE WOMAN OF THE BARMECIDES.[124]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

More double-entendres. “Thou hast done justice” (’adalta) also means “Thou hast swerved from right;” and “Thou hast wrought equitably” (Akasta iv. of Kast) = “Thou hast transgressed.”

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