[209] _Voyez_ ce que dit de Zend, Anquetil Duperron, et l’exemple qu’il donne de cette ancienne langue. _Zend-Avesta_, t. i. [210] D’Herbelot, _Bibl. orient._, p. 54. _Asiat. Research._, t. ii., p. 51. [211] Anquetil Duperron, _Zend-Avesta_, t. i. [212] _Asiat. Research._, t. ii., p. 51. [213] L’abbé Massieu, _Histor. de la Poésie franç._, p. 82. [214] In Arabic ديوان (_diwan_). ן‎א‎ו‎י‎ד [215] D’Herbelot, _Bibl. orient._, au mot DIVAN. _Asiat. Research._, t. ii., p. 13. [216] It must be remarked that the word _Diw_, which is also Persian, was alike applied in Persia to the Divine Intelligence, before Zoroaster had changed the signification of it by the establishment of a new doctrine, which, replacing the _Diws_ by the _Iseds_, deprived them of the dominion of Heaven, and represented them as demons of the earth. See Anquetil Duperron, _Vendidad-Sadè_, p. 133, _Boun-Dehesh._, p. 355. It is thus that Christianity has changed the sense of the Greek word Δαίμων (Demon), and rendered it synonymous with the devil; whereas it signified in its principle, divine spirit and genius. [217] _Asiat. Research._, t. ii., p. 13. [218] _Voyez_ Anquetil Duperron, _Zend-Avesta_, t. iii., p. 527 et suiv. _Voyez_ aussi un ouvrage allemand de Wahl, sur l’état de la Perse: _Pragmatische-Geografische und Statische Schilderung_ … etc. Leipzig, 1795, t. i., p. 198 à 204. [219] Voyez plusieurs de leurs chansons rapportées par Laborde, _Essai sur la Musique_, t. ii., p. 398. [220] Laborde, _ibid._, t. i., p. 425. [221] I will give, later on, a strophe from _Voluspa_, a Scandinavian ode of _eumolpique_ style, very beautiful, and of which I will, perhaps, one day make an entire translation.