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 * cursed.
  5,6 
 * cast dust.  Heb. dusted him with dust.
  Ac 23:23 
   It was an ancient custom, in those warm and arid countries, to
   lay the dust before a person of distinction, by sprinkling the
   ground with water.  Dr. Pococke and the consul were treated
   with this respect when they entered Cairo.  The same custom is
   alluded to in the well-known fable of Ph(9164)rus, in which a
   slave is represented going before Augustus and officiously
   laying the dust.  To throw dust in the air while a person was
   passing was therefore an act of great disrespect; to do so
   before a sovereign prince, an indecent outrage.  But it is
   probable that Shimei meant more than disrespect and outrage to
   this afflicted king.  Sir John Chardin informs us, that in the
   East, in general, those who demand justice against a criminal
   throw dust upon him, signifying that he ought to be put in the
   grave:  and hence the common imprecation among the Turks and
   Persians, "Be covered with earth," or, "Earth be upon thy
   head."

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