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

Note 14 — NI’AMAH BIN AL-RABI’A AND NAOMI HIS SLAVE-GIRL.

Richard Francis Burton translation

Lane makes this phrase “O brother of the Persians!” synonymous with “O Persian!” I think it means more, a Persian being generally considered “too clever by half.”

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