94 BABYLONIAN LITERATURE. 



Chaldseorum deflexisse, ut mos est illis. 

 Nam Tsuxpos Grrccum nomen est, non Tlvxpos 

 nee Tfi'vxTutf." One is struck with admira- 

 tion at the quick perception of a scholar, 

 who deduced from the aspect alone of this 

 singular name of the author, what Dr. 

 Chwolson, with all his tact, has failed to 

 do from the work itself, after having read 

 the whole of it. There is, indeed, no room 

 to doubt that this Tenkelusha al-Babeli of 

 Arabic and Persian manuscripts 1 is the 

 Tsuxpos Ba|3uAa)ViO, called also Tsux^posj 

 Teuccr, Zeuchrus, Zeuchus^ author of geneth- 

 liacs, quoted by Psellus, by Antiochus the 

 Apotelesmatist, and by many others, 2 and 



1 The work of Tcnkelusha is often represented as a book of 

 paintings by tbe Arabs and Persians (See Chwolson, p. 140 ff. 

 Hyde, de Vett. Pers. ReL, pp. 282-283). This is easily under- 

 !, on looking at tbe manuscripts on genetliliacs still in vogue 

 in tin- Hast (our Paris manuscript, Supplement Turc, No. 93, for 

 The numerous illustrations with which they are deco- 

 rated make them resemble albums at tbe first glance. 



ii Opera Critica, prnof. leaf, c ; and his Exercitationes 



riiniana- in Stiliiinm (Paris, 1629), pp. 654-655 ; Brucker, llis- 



l. p. 130 ; Fabricii Biblioth. Graca, Ilarles, 



torn. IV ]>p. 148, 166; Paradoxograpbi Westermanni, pracf. p. 



4711'.; Miller, Journal dcs Savants, Oct., 1839, p. 607, note. 



iillcr lias pointed out to me other quotations from the same 



:;utlu.r in the grc.it astronomic-ul compilation contained in the MSS. 



