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94 Chaldæorum deflexisse, ut mos est illis. Nam Græcum nomen est, non  nec .” One is struck with admiration 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 Tenkelúshá al-Babéli of Arabic and Persian manuscripts is the, called also , Teucer, Zeuchrus, Zeuchus, author of genethliacs, quoted by Psellus, by Antiochus the Apotelesmatist, and by many others, and