Then he assembled in the bath all the grandees of his state, AMIRS and viziers and chamberlains and lieutenants, and the chief officers of his realm and household, and sending for his son El Abbas, said to him,"O my son, I have builded thee a bath, wherein thou mayst take thy pleasance; so enter thou therein, that thou mayst see it and divert thyself by gazing upon it and viewing the goodliness of its ordinance and decoration."
"Tales from the Arabic Volume 3"
John Payne
When the king heard this from his son, he rose to his feet and calling for his charger of state, took horse with four-and-twenty AMIRS of the chief officers of his empire.
"Tales from the Arabic Volume 3"
John Payne
Then the two kings appointed their father-in-law the vizier to be viceroy in Samarcand and assigned him five of the chief AMIRS to accompany him, charging them attend him and do him service.
"Tales from the Arabic Volume 3"
John Payne