18 The Rev. J. Hamilton on the Punic Passage in Plautus 



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A Harmony of the Punic and Libyan Passages* 



May the Gods and Goddesses who guard this city, [and also the lonely traveller 



on his way,] 

 Graciously = auspiciously consummate my [sovrov/fuY] journey — prospering my 



business, directing me here 

 [Worn out with fatigue^ to recover my children, the stray son of my brother — 



my beloved daughters [my darling — my delights,] 

 He swept them off, the lier in wait — whom-may-they-cast-out-as-profane from 



the Gods, and in the sea, one and all, may they sink him. 

 Hospitality I was granted here because / had a connexion with Atitidamas : 



[a near and dear guest to him (was) I]. 

 The old man the testimony 0/ these people =■ [the report'] is by his shrewdness^ 



acquired a house of residence — moreover a fortune for himself, such as 



ability was given him to acquire. 

 And his son has established his house of residence here Agorastocles. 

 [The private] token of truth will be this tablet — my God the engraving [I have] 



brought along with me 

 And [the youth] icitness deposes [= report is] has opened these quarters [the 



old place] for his habitation, 

 Going this way toward the high place, I will see the Bivium, 



[I will inform myself — I will see] the high place, going this way [the 



concourse] and will ask the out-goers from the houses. 



* The parts in Italics are in duplicate; those joined by = synonimous; those in brackets 

 Lybian. 



t Synonimes in the original obv and D~ir, cattiditas. 



