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H. Rawlinson compares the devotion to etiquette among the modern Persians, ‘the Frenchmen of the East’; the salute, however, now is never on the lips.

The prostration of an inferior is familiar in the East (iii. 86. 2); it was as repulsive to the Greeks as the Chinese ‘kotow’ to Doyle's ‘Private of the Buffs’. Cf. vii. 136. 1, and the refusal of Callisthenes to prostrate himself before Alexander (Arr. Anab. iv. 10. 5 seq.).

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