'The travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East Indies, through the Black Sea, and the country of Colchis. Containing the author's voyage from Paris to Ispahan. To which is added, the coronation of the present King of Persia, Solyman the III.' [‎220] (255/594)

220 T he Travels of Sir John Chardin Perfia,
we fliall be as little trouble! to underftand the whole Lan
guage of this Tatent, though Metaphor and Hyperbole are
therein moft furioufly injur'd.
11. The Term which I have Tranflated Flom-e
fignifies Exquifite, Choice, Elected, or moft Excellent. The
(perfians ufe it commonly as an Epithet for all forts and Condi
tions of Men ; Great Lords, Foreign Minifters, Merchants j
and bring it down even to Tradefmen.
12. It is in the Perjian, N
hy Hanghty 'Demands.
15. The word whjch I have Tranflated fig.
nifies properly To Water.
14. Thefe words In Dignity are not in the
tent, only I have put'em in the place of thofe that are, which
fignifies the Seal of great Quality refembling
1 5. Thefe words are to be referr'd to the words Ahfohtely
Commands, which are under the Flourifli beneath the Subfcri-
ption. They are call'd here
Wi odd,Tamberlain was the firft that made ufe of thefe lofty
Expreflions. Now the Grand Sign tor and the Monarch
make ufe of 'em as well as the King of ; while every
one maintains that it belongs to him only, and aflumes it as
his moft Glorious Title. In the Per ft an Language it is,
Cerani. It may be alfo interpreted but the
other Tranflation is more clear and intellie;ible, and difcovers
more plainly the fottifh pride that is contem'd in it.
1 J. We (hall fpeak more particularly in another place of
the Marks by which the Perfia diftinguifli Times and Sea-
lons. Here therefore I fliall fay no more then for the under-
Itanding of the Date, that the Month is the tenth, and
that the Arabians have given Epithets to all the Months 5 as
for Example, to the Firft, the Epithet of W/; to the Sc-
venth, that of Traife-worthy, to the Kinth, that of Sleffed;
and to this here roenuon'd the Stile The word
which is. Tranflated from a
Verb, which figmfies to fly, as alfo to retire. that the He-
gyra ot the Mahometans js the fame thing with the of
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