[H] or wazir, minister.
In treating of the animal powers, he treats first of the fives senses,
and then of the animal Powers. These latter he gives in this section
three times, and each time varies the order somewhat, thus:--
1st. Order of mention:
a. participating, picturing
b. remembering, preserving
c. imaginative, restoring
d. conjecturing, surmising
e. moving
2nd. Order of mention:
a. picturing, participating
b. imaginative
c. conjecturing, surmising
d. remembering
3d Order of mention, in the final Allegorical Summing Up:
a. motion-promoting
b. feeling, sentient, 5 outward senses
c. perceptive
d. imagining
e. conjecturing
f. remembering.
[12] Moreover, the Text seems in Doctor Landauer’s opinion to need
an emendation, in this Allegory, which is furnished by the Latin
Translation preserved in Florence. According to the text, we get a
wholly superfluous intermediary notion, to wit the Post, which disturbs
the parallel and similitude of the allegory. Instead of _barîd_, we
should read _wazîr_ = Latin, inter vicarium principis. If this is done,
the whole passage becomes clearer, and hangs together better. Yet, for
all this, the _barîd_ was in those days a highly important branch of
the government service: witness, the office of _câheb-ul-barîd_.