This interpretation, here erroneously employed, is occasioned by the fact that in the Semitic languages the notion of ‘part’ is conveyed by words which properly denote ‘side:’ the two sides of a thing are two parts of it. Thus, even in literary Arabic the word ṭaraf, and in vulgar Arabic the word jânib (which is etymologically connected with the Hebrew kânâph ‘wing’) are used quite in the sense of baʿḍ ‘a part.’ An interesting modern example of this lies before me in the Arabic text of the terms of the latest 5,000,000_l._ loan by the Egyptian Minister of Finance, in which the third article says: 'The shares fall under the ordinary laws regulating buying and selling and bequest—sawâʾan kâna fî jânib minhu au fîhi bil-kâmil—equally whether it concerns a portion of them or the whole' (_al-Jawâʾïb_, a weekly paper, XIV. No. 695, p. 2, c. 2, of the year 1291). Footnote 335: E.g. _Romance of ʿAntar_, V. 80 ult., 168 v. 6: Saarḥalu ʿankum lâ urîdu sawâʾakum * waʾaḳṣidukum fî junḥi kulli ẓalâmin ‘I go away from you, I want not the like of you; but I shall seek you under the wings of all darkness.’ Footnote 336: _al-Aġânî_, II. 12. 3, is also noticeable: ‘ḳamrun tawassaṭu junḥa leylin mubridi.’ Footnote 337: _Deutsche Mythologie_, p. 141. Footnote 338: Ebers, _Aegypten und die Bücher Mosis_, p. 70. Footnote 339: Fiske, _Myths and Myth-Makers_, pp. 71, 154. Footnote 340: The sun is called _celer deus_ by Ovid, _Fasti_, I. 386; and Herodotus, I. 215, says: τῶν θεῶν ὁ τάχιστος. See Hehn, _Culturpflanzen_, etc., p. 38. Footnote 341: _Berêshîth rabbâ_, sect. 22. Footnote 342: Even Philo lays the chief momentum of the story of Hagar on her flight: μέμνηται γὰρ (sc. ὁ ἱερὸς λόγος) πολλαχοῦ τῶν ἀποδιδρασκόντων, καθάπερ καὶ νῦν φάσκων ἐπὶ τῆς Ἄγαρ ὅτι κακωθεῖσα ἀπέδρα ἀπὸ προσώπου τῆς κυρίας (_De profugis_, p. 546, ed. Mangey). Footnote 343: I leave it for the present undecided whether the name Terach, given to Abraham’s father, belongs to this class. Ewald (_History of Israel_, I. 274) puts it in connexion with ârach ‘to wander,’ though in an ethnological sense. Footnote 344: See above, p. 41. Footnote 345: The first to discover this origin of the relative asher was the Hungarian Csepregi, pupil of the great Schultens, _Dissert._, Lugd., p. 171 (quoted by Gesenius, _Thesaurus_, p. 165): he did not, however, follow out the idea very clearly. Compare also Stade’s view, essentially the same, in the _Morgenländische Forschungen_, Leipzig 1875, p. 188; I could not get a sight of this till after the above was ready for the press. On the other side Schrader, _Jen. Literaturzeit_ 1875, p. 299. Footnote 346: