14 The Rev. J. Hamilton on the Punic Passage in Plautus, 



names are repeated in the Latin, there is found a corresponding repetition in the 

 Punic. For example, the sentences we have alluded to, the fifth and seventh, 

 contain each of them the Latin adverb hie, and accordingly the fifth and seventh 

 Punic lines contain each the Hebrew word of same import, thyn. So in the 

 sentence between them, the sixth, we have the two words of the same root, 

 fecisse ami/aciundum, in the Latin, and in the corresponding line of the Punic 

 the equivalent word of the same Hebrew root phi'l and phu'l. So much for the 

 fifth, sixth, and seventh. In the fourth Latin sentence the word Dii, and in the 

 first Deos ; so in the Punic of both Alonim. In the eighth Latin sentence 

 Deum, and in the eighth Punic ^li, (Deus mens) of the Gospel and Psalms. 

 In the thirds/mm, and also in the seventh. So in Punic three and seven, bj/n 

 or ben, son. In the second Latin ut, and in the Punic chi, the Hebrew for ut; 

 and so in the ninth Punic chi, and in the Latin ut, virtually, (being there com- 

 muted for the equivalent, accusative, and infinitive.) It should have been 

 •mentioned, that in the first and sixth sentences there occurs the repetition of the 

 Latin relative qui in the first, and quod in the sixth ; and that accordingly we 

 find a corresponding repetition in the first and sixth Punic lines, that of the 

 letter s, the sibilant by which in Latin characters the Hebrew relative is 

 expressed. 



These congruities speak for themselves. They show that the Punic verses 

 correspond with the Latin sentences; they give the Punic for the several words 

 repeated in the Latin, and show the affinity, or rather identity, of the Punic 

 with the Hebrew and the cognate dialects. 



The repetitions we have hitherto noticed are however only of words of the 

 same root, let us now endeavour to extend the process to those of the same 

 grammatical form. In the first, fourth, and eighth Latin sentences we have 

 the words Deos and Deas, Dii and Deum. In the corresponding Punic line 

 occur the words Alonim Alonuth, Alonim ^l; Alonim Alonim agreeing with 

 Deos Dii, Alonuth with Deas, ^l with Deus. In the same way, for filium 

 a,nd Jilias, or gnatas, we have ben or byn, and binoth, in the third and seventh 

 line; and in the last line but one another word occurs in im-gebulim for 

 regionibus of the Latin in the same penult line. In short, to the Hebrew 

 scholar it must be clear that im and uth are the masculine and feminine plural 

 Punic, as we know they are masculine and feminine plural Hebrew. 



