dir.

Wenn alle untreu werden, / So bleib' ich dir doch treu—Though all deny thee, yet will not I ever.

Quin dir Eumenides monstraque Tartari His longe duce te finibus exulant.

Sicher, sg' ich dir, as Alles is' dein, Alles in Himmel gehr' zu dir!

As the centuries rolled on, this district of Swat, together with the valley of Dir, became a great headquarters of Buddhism.

Constantinople was again besieged, this time by a horde from the Russian wilderness under the chiefs Dir and Askold.