ECLIPSE of sun, total, temp.
Pírúz, vii, 159
Edessa, S. James of, i, 374
Eggs, golden, as tribute, vi, 24,
36, 160, 169
Egypt (Misr, q.v.), ii, 80; vi, 12,
16, 17, 72, 81, 82; viii,
187, 193
Pseudo-Callisthenes written
in, vi, 13
invaded by Alexander the
Great, vi, 30
Egyptian Egyptians, vi, 16;
viii, 193; ix, 110
falsification of history by,
vi, 16
thorn, viii, 210
linen, ix, 110
Ekbatana (Hamadán), the capi-
tal of Media, i, 17; ii,
191; vi, 31, 32
capital of the Manda, q.v.,
i, 17
Elam (Susiana, Khúzistán),
ancient kingdom and Per-
sian province at the head
of the Persian Gulf, i, 9;
vi, 194, 198
Elburz. See Alburz.
Elements, the four, i, 102, 286
Elephant, elephants, i, 112 and
passim
towers on, iv, 179
Fúr's, vi, 115, 116
Sikandar's device to over-
come, vi, 115, 116
=Rustam, iii, 221, 253
=Rakhsh, iii, 257
=Fúr, vi, 117
piece in chess, vii, 285,
423
position of, vii, 388, 422
move of, vii, 422
White, Zál's, 141, i, 328
referred to, i, 377
Elephantine, the=Rustam, ii,
65, 67
Eleven Rukhs, Battle of the, iv,
88
arranged by Gúdarz and
Pírán, iv, 95 seq.
Firdausí's reflections on, iv,
7, 98, 106
Ellipi, kingdom of, i, 9, 17
Elixir, 144, ii, 177, 178
Elymais (Elam, q.v.), kingdom,
vi, 198
Endless peace, the, vii, 217
Enótokoitai, the, vi, 80
Epirus, ancient kingdom in
northern Greece, vi, 12
Alexander I of, vi, 12
his expedition to Italy,
vi, 12
Equinox, autumnal, iv, 313
Erinde, river, iii, 10 and note, 11
Esdras (Ezra), Jewish priest and
scribe, supposed by the
Muhammadans to have
restored from memory the
law lost during the cap-
tivity, vii, 207, 264
Ether, viii, 275
Ethics, Muhammadan, respected,
viii, 74
Ethiop, Ethiopian, Ethiopic, i,
44; iii, 226; vi, 43, 71,
80
=Indian, vi, 13, 68
western and eastern, vi, 13,
68, 71
version of the Pseudo-Callis-
thenes, q.v., vi, 17 and
note, 18, 30, 33, 66, 67,
71, 74, 82, 83
Ethiopia, vi, 72
flight of Nectanebus to, vi,
18 note
western and eastern, vi, 68
=India, vi, 68
Eumenes, Greek ephemerist,
temp. Alexander the
Great, vi, 12
Euphrates (Farát, q.v.), river, ii,
80; v, 292; vi, 31, 327;
vii, 217; viii, 188, 190
Euxine, sea, i, 16; ii, 191, 336;
vi, 72
Eye, metaphor for child, i, 178,
180, 181, 185, 194; ii,
297, 328; v, 272; vii,
276, 356
evil. ii, 204, 252; iii, 141,
157, 337; iv, 144, 282;
v, 194, 245, 251, 290;
vi, 266, 402; vii, 78, 81,
172; viii, 16, 417
turns milk to bane, vii, 320
seq., 324, 325