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

Note 176 — Terminal Essay.

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

Meaning the era of the Seleucides. Dr. Jonathan Scott shows (vol. ii. 324) that A.H. 653 and A.D. 1255 would correspond with 1557 of that epoch; so that the scribe has here made a little mistake of 5,763 years. Ex uno disce.

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