It is entitled _Nuzhat al-asrâr fî muḥâwarat al-leyl w-al-nahâr_, and is in MS. in the University Library at Leipzig: cod. Ref. no. 357, fol. 11–18. Footnote 257: Of this literature I will now draw attention only to a Ḳasîdâ of the old Persian poet Asadî, which is now made accessible in the edition of Rückert’s _Grammatik, Poetik und Rhetorik der Perser_, published by the care of W. Pertsch, Gotha 1874, pp. 59–63. But it contains little that harmonises with the argumentation of the above-employed Arabic tract. Footnote 258: _Nuzhat al-asrâr_ &c., fol. 14 _verso_, 17 _verso_. Footnote 259: E.g. Abû-l-ʿAlâ’s Poems in the edition with commentary, Bûlâḳ 1286, II. 107, line 1: wa-tabtasimu-l-ashrâṭu fajran. Footnote 260: See Abû-l-ʿAlâ, _ibid_., p. 211, line 5: fî maḍḥaki-l-barḳi. Footnote 261: Vol. I. 193. Compare a beautiful passage in a poem of Ibn Muṭeyr, given by Nöldeke, _Beiträge zur Poesie der alten Araber_, p. 34, to which we shall recur farther on. Footnote 262: _Ursprung der Mythologie_, p. 109 _et seq_. Footnote 263: Most persons know this tense as Future, or as Imperfect.—TR. Footnote 264: Similar correlative names in Hellenic mythology are Pro-metheus and Epi-metheus. Footnote 265: Muslim’s _Collection of Traditions_, edition with Commentary, Cairo 1284, V. 118. The commentator, Al-Nawawî, puts the name al-ʿÂḳib in combination with another name of the Prophet of identical meaning, viz. al-Muḳfî. The name al-ʿÂḳib occurs elsewhere also as a proper name, e.g. as the name of a friend of the poet al-Aʿsha (_Kitâb al-aġânî_, VI. 73). Footnote 266: _Shâhnâmeh_, ed. Mohl, VII. v. 633, according to Rückert’s ingenious interpretation in the _Zeitschrift der D. M. G._, 1856, X. 145. Footnote 267: _De Principiis_, ed. Kopp, p. 385. Footnote 268: The sun itself is called a golden egg (Ad. Kuhn, _Zeitschr. für vergl. Sprachforschung_, I. 456). Footnote 269: _King Henry VI._, Part II. Act IV. beginning. Footnote 270: Heinrich Heine, _The Baltic_ [_sic!_ i.e. ‘die Nordsee’ = the German Ocean], Part 2, No. 4 in E.A. Bowring’s translation. Footnote 271: In Henne-am-Rhyn, _Die deutsche Volkssage_, Leipzig 1874, p. 292, No. 544. Footnote 272: Catullus, LIX. [LXI.] vv. 84–86. Footnote 273: Emîr Chosrev of Delhi, in Rückert, _Grammatik, Rhetorik und Poetik der Perser_, p. 69. 6. Footnote 274: See Excursus C. Footnote 275: Pauly, _Realencyklopädie_, VII. 1277; Wilhelm Bacher, Niẓâmî’s _Leben und Werke_, Leipzig 1871, p. 97, note 13. Footnote 276: Al-Beiḍâwî, _Commentarius in Coranum_, ed. Fleischer, I. 572. 17. Bacher, _l.c._ Footnote 277: Waitz, _Anthropologie der Naturvölker_, II. 170. Footnote 278: See Excursus D. Footnote 279: See e.g. Brugsch, _Histoire d’Égypte_, 1st ed., I. 37. Footnote 280: _De Osir. et Isid._, c. XXXIV. Footnote 281: