Note 031 The common delicacy of the Orientals, in never speaking of their women, is ascribed in a much higher degree by Arabshah to the Turkish nations; and it is remarkable enough, that Chalcondyles (l. ii. p. 55) had some knowledge of the prejudice and the insult.
Note: See Von Hammer, p. 308, and note, p. 621. - M.]

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 65