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HERMENEUTICAL PRECOGNITION OF THE PUNIC AND LIBYAN LINES. 



As ancillary to the interpretation of the Punic original, it may be convenient 

 to premise a brief analysis of the Latin version. 



In the first Latin sentence, Hanno invokes the Alonim and Alonuth, the 

 tutelary deities of the city he had arrived in. 



In the second, he prays that he may have arrived there under their auspices, 

 and that his business may prosper. 



In the third, that they may permit or grant him to recover his lost daughter 

 and nephew, (son of his brother.) 



The fourth contains, along with the reminiscence of the abduction, an appeal 

 to heaven against the author of it. 



The fifth, his reminiscence of the hospitality he had been granted there by 

 Antidamas. 



The sixth, the information he had had respecting that old man's fortunes 

 and implied death. 



The seventh, that respecting the residence there of his adopted son, Agoras- 

 tocles. 



In the eighth, he mentions his having brought with him, as his introduction, 

 the Tessera Hospitalis. • 



In the ninth, his having been directed to that quarter of the town as the 

 locus of Agorastocles's habitation. 



The tenth, his determination to inquire further of the persons coming out 

 from the houses. 



We have thus ten Latin sentences corresponding with as many Punic lines ; 

 a congruity which suggests the inquiry, how far they mutually correspond in 

 other respects, or rather the presumption that each Latin sentence gives the 

 translation more or less closely of each corresponding Punic verse. As confir- 

 matory of this presumption, the first point of agreement between them which 

 claims our notice is, that the proper names at the close of the fifth and seventh 

 sentences of the Latin are found at the close of the corresponding fifth and 

 seventh verses of the original. The next is the circumstance that where common 



