Note 438 — KING SHAH BAKHT AND HIS WAZIR AL-RAHWAN.[295] (continued 2)
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
“Galen,” who is considered by Moslems as a kind of pre-Islamitic Saint; and whom Rabelais (iii. c. 7) calls Le gentil Falot Galen, is explained by Eustathius as the Serene Γαληνὸς from γελάω = rideo.