[Footnote 12: _Calilah et Dimna, ou, Fables de Bidpai, en Arabe, précédées d’un Mémoire sur l’origine de ce livre._ Par Sylvestre de Sacy. Paris, 1816.] [Footnote 13: Loiseleur Deslongchamps, _Essai sur les Fables Indiennes, et sur leur Introduction en Europe._ Paris, 1838.] [Footnote 14: _Pantschatantra, Fünf Bucher indischer Fabeln, Märchen und Erzählungen, mit Einleitung._ Von. Th. Benfey. Leipzig, 1859.] [Footnote 15: See Weil, _Geschichte der Chalifen_, vol. ii. p. 84.] [Footnote 16: Benfey, p. 60.] [Footnote 17: Cf. _Barlaam et Joasaph_, ed. Boissonade, p. 37.] [Footnote 18: _Kalila and Dimna; or, the Fables of Bidpai, translated from the Arabic._ By the Rev. Wyndham Knatchbull, A.M. Oxford, 1819.] [Footnote 19: _Specimen Sapientiæ Indorum Veterum, id est Liber Ethico-Politicus pervetustus, dictus Arabice Kalilah ve Dimnah, Græce Stephanites et Ichnelates, nunc primum Græce ex MS. Cod. Holsteiniano prodit cum versione Latina, opera S. G. Starkii._ Berolini, 1697.] [Footnote 20: This expression, a four-winged house, occurs also in the Pañcatantra. As it does not occur in the Arabic text, published by De Sacy, it is clear that Symeon must have followed another Arabic text in which this adjective, belonging to the Sanskrit, and no doubt to the Pehlevi text, also, had been preserved.] [Footnote 21: Note B, p. 190.] [Footnote 22: Note C, p. 191.] [Footnote 23: Note D, p. 192.] [Footnote 24: Note E, p. 193.] [Footnote 25: Benfey, _Orient und Occident_, vol. i. p. 138.] [Footnote 26: Ibid. vol. i. p. 501. Its title is: “Exemplario contra los engaños y peligros del mundo,” ibid. pp. 167, 168.] [Footnote 27: _Discorsi degli animali, di Messer Agnolo Firenzuola, in prose di M. A. F._ (Fiorenza, 1548.)] [Footnote 28: _La Moral Filosophia del Doni, tratta da gli antichi scrittori._ Vinegia, 1552. _Trattati Diversi di Sendebar Indiano, filosopho morale._ Vinegia, 1552. P. 65. _Trattato Quarto._ A woman tells her husband to wait till her son is born, and says:-- “Stava uno Romito domestico ne i monti di Brianza a far penitenza e teneva alcune cassette d’ api per suo spasso, e di quelle a suoi tempi ne cavava il _Mele_, e di quello ne vendeva alcuna parte tal volta per i suoi besogni. Avenne che un’ anno ne fu una gran carestia, e egli attendeva a conservarlo, e ogni giorno lo guardava mille volte, e gli pareva cent’ anni ogni hora, che e gli indugiava a empierlo di Mele,” etc.] [Footnote 29: _Le Plaisant et Facétieux Discours des Animaux, novellement traduict de Tuscan en François._ Lyon, 1556, par Gabriel Cottier. _Deux Livres de Filosofie Fabuleuse, le Premier Pris des Discours de M. Ange Firenzuola le Second Extraict des Traictez de Sandebar Indien, par Pierre de La Rivey._ Lyon, 1579.