"“Art thou out of thy mind? thou sleepest in Cairo and thou wakest in the morning at the gate of Damascus-city!”"
— Damascus

January 1, 1970

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Syria
Original Language: English

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Richard Francis Burton, tr., The Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. 1 (1885), p. 225 — Burton’s note: Torrens, being an Irishman, translates “and woke in the morning sleeping at Damascus.”