Vulgar words in History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 4 (of 12) (Page 1)
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Frost is of rare occurrence in winter, and rain is infrequent at any season; the sun soon burns up the scanty herbage which the spring showers have encouraged, but fleshy plants successfully resist its heat, such as the common salsola, the salsola soda, the pallasia, a small mimosa, and a species of very fragrant wormwood, forming together a vari-coloured vegetation which gives shelter to the ostrich and the wild ass, and affords the flocks of the nomads a grateful pasturage when the autumn has set in.
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* He was accompanied by his wife Ati, riding on an ass, from which she alighted in order to gain a closer view of the strangers.