Note 661
The Barber’s Tale of his Fifth Brother.
The texts give "dirhams" (100,000 = 5,000 dinars) for "dinars," a clerical error as the sequel shows.
…: worth an hundred dirhams, stood on the bench before him, and, after looking at it, he continued, "And when, Inshallah! my capital shall have become one hundred thousand[FN#661] dinars, I will send out marriage brokeresses to require for me in wedlock the daughters of Kings and Wazirs; and I will demand to wife the eldest daughter of the Prime Minister; for it hath reached me that she is perfect in beauty and prime in lovelin…
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