Note 262 — THE LOVES OF AL-HAYFA AND YUSUF.[177] (continued 2)
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
In the text written “Imriyyu ’l-Kays”: for this pre-Islamitic poet see Term. Essay, p. 258. “The Man of Al-Kays” or worshipper of the Priapus-idol was a marking figure in Arabian History. The word occurs, with those of Aera, Dusares (Theos Ares), Martabu, Allat and Manát in the Nabathæan (Arabian) epigraphs brought by Mr. Doughty from Arabia Deserta (vol. i. pp. 180–184).