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which was followed by a truce, it lasted forty years.[1] This war ended about the period of the birth of Muhammed, during the reign of Amru ben Hind,[2] and was followed by many wars and battles between the Amerites, Ghafanidites, Absites, Keisites, and other tribes, which originated in as many petty, perhaps often imaginary, injuries.[3] Many of these conflicts took place within the bounds of the Roman and Persian provinces, and one is recorded to have happened at Ras-el-Ain, or Theodosiopolis, only fifteen farsangs, or forty-five miles, from Nisibis.[4]
The Taglabites, or Arabs of Ghassan, were always celebrated for their personal bravery.[5] Between
- ↑ Rasmussen, Hist. Præcip. Arab. Regn. pp. 83–88.
- ↑ Id. ib. p. 89.
- ↑ Id. pp. 89–110. The following may be cited as an instance of the trifling causes of these hostilities. "Dies Fagar secundus fuit inter Koreischitas et Havazenitas: juvenes nempe aliquot Koreischitæ mulieri cuidam e beni Amer ben Dsâdsâh (معمعه) [Havazenitis] in foro Ocads consederunt. Complures subinde adolescentes Cananitæ eam circumdederunt, rogantes, ut vultum, velo demto, retegeret; quod cum negasset, aliquis eorum, a tergo subrepens, indusium ejus dorso spina affixit, unde factum, ut cum incauta surrexit, in conspectum data esset pars ejus postica. In risum effusi juvenes ei dixere: conspectum faciei tui nobis denegasti, sed conspiciendam partem adversam nobis præbuisti. Convocavit in auxilium mulier tributes Ameritas, unde orta altercatio leviorque conflictio; mox tamen rem composuit Harb filius Omijah." Nuweir, in Rasmussen, p. 75.
- ↑ Rasmussen, p. 103.
- ↑ Vullers, Prolegom. ad Hareth, Moallaca, p. ii.
