A Persian poet, famous for the copious flow of his diction. He wrote in verse the Shah-Nâmch, or history of the Persian kings, which took thirty years, and contains 120,000 verses.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.