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Updated: June 19, 2025
Firdusi, the great Persian epic poet, compares human beauty to the growth of the cypress, as the highest praise he can give. No sound was to be heard except the one which had alarmed her, and this too died away at last on the morning breeze.
The spirit of war that leaps and laughs within these pages is the spirit of Homer and Firdusi, of Beowulf and the Song of Roland, and when it sank, it was like the going down of a sun.
Upon the constituent characteristics of the Turanian group of races and languages other pages of the same work may be consulted.... The distinction between Turan and Iran is to be found in the literature of ancient Persia, but its importance became greater in the Middle Ages, as may be seen by reference to the great epic of Firdusi, the Shah-Nameh.
But all the same I fretted at having to start off at a moment's notice for anywhere perhaps Havre, perhaps Marseilles, perhaps Singapore with its horrible damp climate, which wouldn't suit me anywhere that tough and discomfort-loving Jaffery might choose to ordain. And I was getting on so nicely with my translation of Firdusi. . . .
"Don't you care a bit whether your friends get married or not?" "Not a bit," said I. Barbara lifted the Macan's Firdusi, still suffering the desecration of the forgotten cage of white mice, onto my manuscript and hoisted herself on the cleared corner of the table. "Doria is my dearest friend. She did my sums for me at school, although I was three years older.
He succeeded Kai-kobád, about six hundred years B.C. According to Firdusi he was a foolish tyrannical prince. He appointed Rustem captain-general of the armies, to which the lieutenant-generalship and the administration of the state was annexed, under the title of "the champion of the world."
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