"رحلة أوترام وهافلوك في بلاد فارس، بقلم النقيب ج. هـ. هانت، ٧٨ هايلاندرز. يوجد في المقدمة ملخص عن التاريخ الفارسي، تقرير عن الاختلافات المتعددة بين إنجلترا وبلاد فارس واستفسار عن أصل الحرب السابقة. بقلم جورج تاونسيند، مؤلف كتاب "ملخص أوروبا الحديثة لراسل"". [‎٢‎٨] (٣٩٠/٤٩)

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PERSIA IN
" And in the passage which follows this one,
he proceeds to say, 4 But now they have more
clothes laid upon their horses than they have
even on their beds. Por they do not pay so
much attention to their horsemanship as to
sitting softly. Moreover, they have porters,
and bread-makers, and confectioners, and cup
bearers, and men to serve up their meals, and
to take them away, and men to lull them to
sleep, and men to wake them, and dressers to
anoint them and to rub them, and to get
them up well in every respect.'"
In another part of this entertaining work—
in which amid much that is extravagant, fre
quently blemished by a freedom of expression
that is found in most ancient authors, many
pictures of ancient habits and modes of life
are preserved—reference is made to the magni
ficence of the Persian banquets. Athenaeus says
(Book iv.), " But Heraclides, the Cumaean, who
compiled a history of Persia, in the second
book of that work, which is entitled * Prepara
tory,' says, c And those who wait upon the
Persian kings while they are at supper, all
minister, after having bathed, wearing beau-