[Footnote 36: Or, according to another account, 1200,
(D'Herbelot, Bibliotheque Orientale, p. 75: ) the two
historians who wrote of the Ayam al Arab, the battles of the
Arabs, lived in the 9th and 10th century. The famous war of
Dahes and Gabrah was occasioned by two horses, lasted forty
years, and ended in a proverb, (Pocock, Specimen, p. 48.)]