Note 293 — ARDASHIR AND HAYAT AL-NUFUS.[261] (continued 2)

An operation well described by Juvenal—

Illa supercilium, modicâ fuligine tactum,

Obliquâ producit acu, pingitque, trementes

Attolens oculos.

Sonnini (Travels in Egypt, chapt. xvi.) justly remarks that this pencilling the angles of the eyes with Kohl, which the old Levant trade called alquifoux or arquifoux, makes them appear large and more oblong; and I have noted that the modern Egyptian (especially Coptic) eye, like that of the Sphinx and the old figures looks in profile as if it were seen in full (Pilgrimage i. 214).