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When the Babylonian Empire empire was absorbed into the Persian Achaemenid Empire, the name " Chaldean " lost its meaning as the name of a race of men, and came to be applied only to a social class.
The Persians found the Chaldeans masters of reading and writing, and especially versed in all forms of incantation, in sorcery, witchcraft, and the magical arts.
They quite naturally spoke of astrologists and astronomers as Chaldeans.
It therefore resulted that Chaldean came to mean astrologist.
In this sense it is used in the Book of Daniel ( Dan.
i. 4, ii.
2 et seq.
), and with the same meaning it is used by the classical writers ( for example, by Strabo ).
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