abulfaragius

Updated: April 30, 2025

Before I was sixteen, I had exhausted all that could be learned in English of the Arabs and Persians, the Tartars and Turks; and the same ardour urged me to guess at the French of D'Herbelot, and to construe the barbarous Latin of Pocock's Abulfaragius.

Edward Gibbon - Memoirs of My Life and Writings