Note 247 — TALE OF KAMAR AL-ZAMAN,
Richard Francis Burton translation
The small fine foot is a favourite with Easterns as well as Westerns. Ovid (A. A.) is not ashamed "ad teneros Oscula (not basia or suavia) ferre pedes." Ariosto ends the august person in
Il breve, asciutto, e ritondetto piede,
(The short-sized, clean-cut, roundly-moulded foot).
And all the world over it is a sign of "blood," i.e. the fine nervous temperament.