سندبادنامه 368
English (machine translation) 368
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368.1
"Your adversaries were ants and have become serpents; / O Shah, destroy the ants that have turned into serpents!
Do not delay, and let not more time pass than this, / for a serpent becomes a dragon if it gains time."
368.4
16. The Story of the Hunter, the Honey, the Dog, the Weasel, and the Grocer
"And if the shah would hear in this regard the testimony of a just witness and the proof of a weighty discourse,
I shall speak: it is the story of a city that was laid waste on account of a drop of honey, and seventy
thousand men became fodder for the sword." The king asked: "How was that?"
368.8
16. The Story of the Hunter, the Honey, the Dog, the Weasel, and the Grocer
She said: "I have read that in past times and bygone ages, a hunter
possessed a trained dog: broad-chested, slender-shanked, lean-loined, stout-headed,
lop-eared, tail-raised, leopard-breasted, eagle-vindictive, lion-strong,
elephant-assaulting, wolf-dashing, crocodile-springing; like a tempest in the open desert and like
a gale in the open air, he would bring down birds from the sky and hunt deer in the wilderness:
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- سندبادنامه — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian