1. ****, is the ex-pression of Olympiodorus (apud Photium,
p. 196 [p. 62 b, ed. Bekk.]); who means, perhaps, to
describe the same caresses which Mahomet bestowed on his
'daughter' Phatemah. Quando (says the prophet himself),
quando subit mihi desiderium Paradisi, osculor eam, et
ingero linguam meam in os ejus. But this sensual indulgence
was justified by miracle and mystery; and the anecdote has
been communicated to the public by the Reverend Father
Maracci, in his Version and Confutation of the Koran, tom.
i. p. 32.