IV. In ii. 2 the king summons four classes of hierophants to disclose his dream and its interpretation. They are the magicians (_Chartummîm_), the enchanters (_Ashshaphîm_), the sorcerers (_Mechashsh'phîm_), and the Chaldeans (_Kasdîm_).[101] The _Chartummîm_ occur in Gen. xli. 8 (which seems to be in the writer's mind); and the _Mechashsh'phîm_ occur in Exod. vii. 11, xxii. 18; but the mention of _Kasdîm_, "Chaldeans," is, so far as we know, an immense anachronism. In much later ages the name was used, as it was among the Roman writers, for wandering astrologers and quacks.[102] But this degenerate sense of the word was, so far as we can judge, wholly unknown to the age of Daniel. It never once occurs in this sense on any of the monuments. Unknown to the Assyrian-Babylonian language, and only acquired long after the end of the Babylonian Empire, such a usage of the word is, as Schrader says, "an indication of the post-exilic composition of the Book."[103] In the days of Daniel "Chaldeans" had no meaning resembling that of "magicians" or "astrologers." In every other writer of the Old Testament, and in all contemporary records, _Kasdîm_ simply means the Chaldean nation, and _never_ a learned caste.[104] This single circumstance has decisive weight in proving the late age of the Book of Daniel. V. Again, we find in ii. 14, "Arioch, the chief of the executioners." Schrader precariously derives the name from _Eri-aku_, "servant of the moon-god"; but, however that may be, we already find the name as that of a king Ellasar in Gen. xiv. 1, and we find it again for a king of the Elymæans in Judith i. 6. In ver. 16 Daniel "went in and desired of the king" a little respite; but in ver. 25 Arioch tells the king, as though it were a sudden discovery of his own, "I have found a man of the captives of Judah, that will make known unto the king the interpretation." This was a surprising form of introduction, after we have been told that the king himself had, by personal examination, found that Daniel and his young companions were "_ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm_." It seems, however, as if each of these chapters was intended to be recited as a separate _Haggada_.