"The Translators of The Thousand and One Nights", essay by Jorge Luis Borges
https://gwern.net/doc/borges/1936-borges-thetranslatorsofthethousandandonenights.pdf

92	Encomium, warm or high praise, strong commendation

96	"They are already well acquainted with the men, mores,
	talismans, deserts, and demons that the tales reveal to us."
	Mores is the Latin mōrēs, sg. mōs, the customs, habits, morals
	of a society.

106	"To celebrate Mardrus' fidelity is to leave out the soul of
	Mardrus, to ignore Mardrus entirely.  It is his infidelity, his
	happy and creative infidelity, that must matter to us."

107	"Enno Littmann, decipherer of the Ethiopic inscriptions in the
	fortress of Axum."  Axum, a town in Ethiopia, is the historic
	capital of the Aksumite Empire (which ended, according to
	Wikipedia, collapsed in 960 AD), notable for its obelisks and
	stelae.