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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 (of 10)

Note 281 — ALI SHAR[254] AND ZUMURRUD.

Richard Francis Burton translation

Arab. “Ya Nasráni”; the address is not intrinsically slighting but it may easily be made so. I have elsewhere noted that when Julian (is said to have) exclaimed “Vicisti Nazarene!” he was probably thinking in Eastern phrase “Nasarta, yá Nasráni!”

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