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The drinking companion (1)

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04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry



Keywords
drinking
sayings
Period
4th century CE
Channel
Arabic culture
Armenian culture
Iranian culture


Text
Admonitions of Ādurbād 21 (Middle Persian):
Drink not together with a drunken man.

Ahiqar (Arabic version) 27.5:
Be not intimate with the ill-natured drunken man.

Ahiqar (Armenian Version) A.93:
Son, into the house of a drunkard enter not.


Sources (list of abbreviations)
Admonitions of Ādurbād 21 (Middle Persian)
Ahiqar (Arabic Version) 27.5
Ahiqar (Armenian Version) A.93

Bibliography

de Blois 1984, 47de Blois, F. “The Admonitions of Adurbad and their Relationship to the Ahiqar Legend.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1984) 41-53.

Amar Annus


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