96 BABYLONIAN LITEBATUBE. 



lief that the true name of this Helleno- 

 Baby Ionian was Tsvxpog, 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 Kitdb el-fihrist, by the side of 

 Tenklus, figures a L ^^ J hJb==Tmc?^us J 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 Tsvxpog. 2 

 There is nothing surprising in such a name, 

 when borne by a Babylonian sage, since in 



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

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

 I and r are 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 cl-fihrist given by M. Fluegel, 

 in the Zeitschrift der Morgenl. Gesellschaft, 1859, p. 628. M 

 Fluegel reads erroneously Tinacrius. The titles given in the Kitdb 



cl-fihriat are: 1st, for Tenklus, J.jusM. s^^\ l_*j\*£j 2nd, 



for Tincrus, J.aJ^ *f>-fi 15^ JlJVj-JI C_>1^\ °°th ° 

 which correspond sufficiently with the Greek titles referred to 

 above. 



