96 BABYLONIAN LITERATURE. 



lief that the true name of this Helleno- 

 Babylonian was Tsvxpo$, and that Tenklush 

 is an alteration. 1 What proves this, and 

 gives, at the same time, a remarkable con- 

 firmation to the preceding opinion, is, that 

 in the Kitab el-fihrist, by the side of 

 Tenklus, figures a ^jalo=Tincrus, whose 

 legend has a wonderful resemblance to that 

 of Tenklus, and to whom a work is ascribed 

 identical in title with that of Tenklus. It 

 is evident that these two authors are but 

 one and the same, and that their names re- 

 present two forms of the primitive Tevxpog* 2 

 There is nothing surprising in such a name, 

 when borne by a Babylonian sage, since in 



1 In fact, the termination iish is that of all the Greek names 

 which have passed into the Arabic and Persian. It is known that 

 I and r arc confounded in Babylonian, and that these two letters 

 only make one in Pehlevi. The termination a is the Aramaic 

 emphasis. The Kitdb el-fihrist gives the form Tenkelush. 



2 Look to the analysis of Kitdb el-fihrist given by M. Fluegel, 

 in the Zcitschrift der Morgenl. Gescllschaft, 1859, p. 628. M 



reads erroneously Tinacrius. The titles given in fae Kitdb 



el-fihrist are: 1st, for Tenklus, ^.j. *f>\ L-J\Z& ; 2nd > 

 for Tincrus, J^jJ^ ^ ^\ ^ Ju!\y*S! C-A , both o 



which correspond sufficiently with the Greek titles referred to 

 above. 



