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Ιοβλεφαρος, violet-colour eye-lids, attributed by the Greeks to the goddess of beauty.
Page 71.—Rocnabad.
The stream thus denominated, flows near the city of Schiraz. Its waters are uncommonly pure and limpid, and its banks swarded with the finest verdure. Its praises are celebrated by Hafez, in an animated song, which Sir W. Jones has admirably translated:—
Boy, let yon liquid ruby flow,
And bid thy pensive heart be glad,
Whate'er the frowning zealots say:
Tell them, their Eden cannot shew
A stream so clear as Rocnabad,
A bower so sweet as Mosella.
Mosella was an oratory on the banks of Rocnabad.
Page 74.—Moullahs.
Those amongst the Mahometans who were bred to the law, had this title; and the judges of cities and provinces were taken from their order.
Page 74.—the sacred Cahaba.
That part of the temple at Mecca which is chiefly revered, and, indeed, gives a sanctity to
