Daniel 2:4

Then spake the Chaldeans to the king -The meaning is, either that the Chaldeans spoke in the name of the entire company of the soothsayers and magicians (see the notes,Daniel 1:20;Daniel 2:2), because they were the most prominent among them, or the name is used to denote the collective body of soothsayers, meaning that this request was made by the entire company. In Syriac -In the original -ארמית'ărâmı̂yt- in “Aramean.” Greek,ΣυριστὶSuristi- “in Syriac.” So the Vulgate. The Syriac retains the original word.