Collated with parallel Passages of the Hebrew Scriptures. 17 



Having thus taken a first view of the Punic passage, properly so called, it 

 remains that before we pass on to the explication of it in detail, we take some 

 notice of the six lines, commonly distinguished by the title of the Libyan Verses. 

 Some critics have dealt with them as a continuation of the preceding ten ; others 

 have pronounced them a repetition or version of them In a different dialect. 

 The attempts to explicate them on the former hypothesis have been condemned, I 

 believe, unanimously as failures. Those who have adopted the latter view of 

 them have, I think, as uniformly abandoned the attempt in despair. 



One encouraging fact, however, meets us in limine, and one, of which the 

 tabular matter, in the twelfth page, furnishes ocular demonstration ; that the six 

 lines are so far the duplicate of the ten, that in each of the ten Punic lines, but one,* 

 we find a small, but significant, combination of vocables, which have their echo 

 in the corresponding locus of the Libyan passage, — a broken sentence common to 

 both, agreeing with the Latin in sense, and with both Punic and Libyan in 

 phonetic power. Along with this series of duplicates in sound, we find a 

 series equally numerous of synonimous expressions, constituting duplicates in 

 sense. And with this common portion the ascititlous or supplemental Punic 

 and Libyan remainders cohere, as the " common Gospel" of the German criticf 

 with the supposed additions of the Evangelists, forming a harmony of the Punic 

 passage with the Libyan, such as is submitted in the next page.J 



* I find since this paper was sent to press, that this exception is removed by the Milan Palimpsest 

 of Angelo Maio, in which we discover within the locus where we might expect it the word Alonim 

 corresponding to the Di vostramjidem of the Latin. 



f Eichorn. 



X In reference to this harmony it would seem a proper opportunity to observe, that some of the 

 best editions of Plautus, in place oi ysdihuth, in the seventh line, read ysdibur, which may be ren- 

 dered, " has fixed (report is) his residence here," harmonizing with the voso duher of the Milan 

 paUmpsest, as buth-nuchth does with the 'ono huth of the preceding Libyan line. Again, in the 

 penultimate line of the Punic the words cAtY ^m, maybe read either cAin^S^w, that yonder, above there, 

 to him, &c. ; or chi nO^M, that he has opened for himself; according to the meaning, operp—open 

 eminently, ascribed by Parkhurst to the word bbn. The latter reading is recommended as harmo- 

 nizing with the Libyan of the same sentence in meaning ; but the former having been adopted in 

 the first instance, the corresponding Latin rendering superne, illi hce regiones, &c. hold its place 

 still, p. 7. 



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