94 BABYLONIAN LITERATURE. 



Chaldeeorum denexisse, ut mos est illis. 

 Nam Tzvxpog Grcecuin nomen est, non Tivxpog 

 nee TivxTiog." 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 

 Tsuxpog BajSuXcovio^, called also Tsvx%pog } 

 Teucer, Zeuchrus, Zeuchus, author of geneth- 

 liacs, quoted by Psellus, by Antiochus the 

 Apotelesmatist, and by many others, 2 and 



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

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

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

 stood, on looking at the manuscripts on genethliacs still in voo-ue 

 in the East (our Paris manuscript, Supplement litre, No. 93, for 

 instance). The numerous illustrations with which they are deco- 

 rated make them resemble albums at the first glance. 



2 See Salmasii Opera Critica, proof, leaf, c ; and his Exercitationes 

 Plinianae in Solinum (Paris, 1629), pp. 654-6,35 ; Brucker, Uis- 

 toria Crit. Philos. t. I. p. 130 ; Fabricii Biblioth. Graca, Harles, 

 torn. IV pp. 148, 166 ; Paradoxographi Westermanni, praef. p. 

 47 ff. ; Miller, Journal des Savants, Oct., 1839, p. 607, note. 

 M. Miller has pointed out to me other quotations from the same 

 author in the great astronomical compilation contained in the MSS. 



