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[FN#23] In Egypt, etc., the bull takes the place of the Western

ox. The Arab. word is "Taur" (Thaur, Saur); in old Persian "Tora"

and Lat. "Taurus," a venerable remnant of the days before the

"Semitic" and "Aryan" families of speech had split into two

distinct growths. "Taur" ends in the Saxon "Steor" and the

English "Steer "

[FN#24] Arab. "Abu Yakzan" = the Wakener, because the ass brays

at dawn.

[FN#25] Arab. "Tibn"; straw crushed under the sledge: the hay of

Egypt, Arabia, Syria, etc. The old country custom is to pull up

the corn by handfuls from the roots, leaving the land perfectly

bare: hence the "plucking up" of Hebrew Holy Writ. The object is

to preserve every atom of "Tibn."

[FN#26] Arab. "Ya Aftah": Al-Aftah is an epithet of the bull,

also of the chameleon.

[FN#27] Arab. "Balid," a favourite Egyptianism often pleasantly

confounded with "Wali" (a Santon), hence the latter comes to mean

"an innocent," a "ninny."

[FN#28] From the Calc. Edit., Vol. 1., p. 29.