"Sotadic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... meanings, e.g. "work frowardness" (Maradd), or "work the fruit of the tree Arak" (Maradd wild capparis) and so forth. I have chosen the word mainly because "Murd" rhymes to "Burd." The people of Al-Yaman are still deep in the Sotadic Zone and practice; this they owe partly to a long colonization of the "'Ajam," or Persians. See my Terminal Essay, ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton |
