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The only line not included in the above induction of corresponding repe- 

 tition is the last. But it too affords exemplification of the im and oth being 

 masculine and feminine plural in Punic as in Hebrew. For qui egrediuntur 

 foras is obviously equivalent to egredientes ex cedibus, (the Delphin interpreta- 

 tion,) and accordingly as " /m^;" signifies egredior, and " mnuchoth" cedes, we 

 find the Punic run — luzim m-mmnchoth. 



Before we dismiss the subject of words in duplicate, it may be worth while 

 to point out one or two other cases of Hebrew duplicate, not less pertinent, 

 though less obvious, than those already noticed, — viz. repetitions of words or 

 phrases occurring in the original, although not veubally transferred into the 

 Latin translation. Examples of this sort occur in translations accounted literal, 

 but are still more likely to occur in such as are only paraphrases or abridgments. 

 And the Latin translation of the Punic is, properly speaking, nothing but an 

 abridgment. In the sixth line we have the phrase " aiunt" they tell me, they 

 inform me, their information is. In the last line but one, " monstratum est," 

 it has been told me, my informant, in answer to my inquiries, deposes, Sfc. In 

 both these clauses, therefore, we have in common the idea of information, testi- 

 mony, &c., and accordingly in both we find the same Hebrew-Punic word ny, id, 

 = witness. 



ly, the Punic id, has (as witness has in English) the double meaning of 

 either witness, testimony, information, or deponent, informant, nbti IV, id elleh, 

 in the sixth verse, is the testimony of these people, ly '>3y, vni id, in the penul- 

 timate verse, is equivalent to witness answered or deposed, ny mv, is a 

 peculiar Hebrew phrase which occurs in the ninth commandment, ly "ijy (with 

 ■> instead of n) is an Arabism, which having the copulative 1 prefixed, becomes 

 by synaeresis the u'niid of the Punic,* and witness testifies. 



The word ly in the penultimate line is recognized by Bochart, but it escaped 

 his observation in the sixth, as did also the words respectively combined with it 

 in phrase in both lines. n'7J^, ele, these, after it, in the former ; and ijy, ni, 

 answered, testified, before it, in the latter. 



Again, as the latter section of the passage relates almost entirely to the idea 

 of hospitalities, either those received by Hanno from Antidamas, or expected on 



* See Schindler in verb. 



