The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire . ma is a mocking diminutive of Maslama] said orsung : Surge tandem itaque strenue permolenda; nam stratus tibi thorus est. Aut in propatulo tentorio si veils, aut in abditiore cubiculo si malis ; Aut supinam te humi exporrectam f ustigabo, si veils, aut si malis manibus pedi-busque nixam. Aut si velis ejus (Priapi) gemino triente, aut si malis totus veniam. Imo, totus venito, 0 Apostole Dei, clamabat foemina. Id ipsum dicebat Moseilama mihi quoque suggessit prophetess Segjah, after the fall of her lover, returned to idolatry ; b
The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire . ma is a mocking diminutive of Maslama] said orsung : Surge tandem itaque strenue permolenda; nam stratus tibi thorus est. Aut in propatulo tentorio si veils, aut in abditiore cubiculo si malis ; Aut supinam te humi exporrectam f ustigabo, si veils, aut si malis manibus pedi-busque nixam. Aut si velis ejus (Priapi) gemino triente, aut si malis totus veniam. Imo, totus venito, 0 Apostole Dei, clamabat foemina. Id ipsum dicebat Moseilama mihi quoque suggessit prophetess Segjah, after the fall of her lover, returned to idolatry ; but, underthe reign of Moawiyah, she became a Musulman, and died at Bassora (Abulfeda,Annal. vers. Reiske, p. 63). [The tradition that Musailima and Sejah spent threedays in amorous converse is found in Tabari (i. p. 185-7, ed. Kosegarten), butseems to be refuted by the circumstance that Musailima was then more than ahundred years old (Weil, i. p. 22), and is on other grounds unworthy of credence(see the discussion of Caetani, op. cit. ii. 1, 644 sqq.).]. W!AF,jtf^v/TnAC hi^ TAAIAVfTOylRNf^ frm^ToevfAfrN- H^VVHHNI TO VV(fNfi^ ntl<OTfAA\fT«J\(KATfAAyN+ia NeTOAnoDAfif 1 ?1 BVZAXTIXE ORXAMEXT AXD WRllix,,: Pv;f FROM AX ., DATED ;«^ E^ (BRITISH museum) Chap, lij OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE 425 An obscure sentence of his Koran, or book, is yet extant ;^ and,in the pride of his mission, Moseilama condescended to offer apartition of the earth. The proposal was answered by Mahometwith contempt; but the rapid progress of the impostor awakenedthe fears of his successor: forty thousand Moslems were assem-bled under the standard of Caled; and the existence of theirfaith was resigned to the event of a decisive battle. In the firstaction they were repulsed with the loss of twelve hundred men ;but the skill and perseverance of their general prevailed: theirdefeat was avenged by the slaughter of ten thousand infidels;and Moseilama himself was pierced by an Ethiopian slave w
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