[Footnote 43: Medinat al Salem, Dar al Salem. Urbs pacis,
or, as it is more neatly compounded by the Byzantine
writers, (Irenopolis.) There is some dispute concerning the
etymology of Bagdad, but the first syllable is allowed to
signify a garden in the Persian tongue; the garden of Dad, a
Christian hermit, whose cell had been the only habitation on
the spot.]