About a year ago one of the readers here at Fortress of the Mind informed me of a work of scholarship that he thought might be of interest. The work was Georg Wilhelm Freytag’s monumental Latin treatise Arabum Proverbia (literally Proverbs of the Arabs, but better rendered as Arabic Proverbs), a three-volume collection of classical Arabic proverbs drawn from the Compendium of Proverbs (مجمع الامثال) of the medieval philologist Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Al-Maydani (احمد ابن محمد الميداني). I was able to locate this impressive yet forgotten work, and have found much pleasure in poring over its pages.
Quintus Curtius 
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