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matic character. The conception, it would seem to conjure up, if not definitely 

 to convey, being that of the harpy violence of the spoiler, like some ambushed 

 minister of the fates, sweeping off the sweets of his domestic happiness and 

 hopes, and leaving " no remainder."* 



Punic Phraseology respecting the Imprecation explicated. 



Sj/lloho Malonim, uVym is yrduhu, imnn"' tTN CD''1'1 tZ3''3l'7S'0 im'7'7''\r, 

 " Quern ut profanum arceant a Diis et in mare unusquisque demergant." 



At this part of the monologue, Hanno's reminiscence of his wrongs calls forth 

 against the author of them an appeal to the gods, rendered in the Latin Di, &c., 

 which we may consider as an appeal to their retributive justice — in effect, an 

 imprecation Invoking punishment on the Andrapodist, or African slave-dealer 

 of that day. With respect to the punishment to which Hanno's imprecation pur- 

 ports to doom the Andrapodist, we are here deserted by the Latin, but may ven- 

 ture to form some conjectui-e on the subject from certain known usages of antiquity 

 in general respecting the disgrace and punishment of such execrable characters, 

 and perhaps we may add, from those of the Carthaginians in particular. 



It will be recollected then, in the first place, that persons attainted with the 

 guilt of infamous crimes, such as those called Andrapodists, men or child- 

 stealers, were included amongst those designated as jSefirjXoi'f and e^eipyovfjieuoi, 



* Reminding us of the expression purporting to have been dictated by parallel circumstances and 



feelings, 



«' My children too, that were most precious to me, 



Hell kite, at one fill swoop." 



Macbeth. 



And of the similar circumstances and feeling expressed by Logan, the American chief, in the 

 words — " There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any human being." 



" To whom nor relative nor blood remains, 

 No, not a kindred drop that runs in human veins." 



See Jefferson's Notes on Virginia, and Campbell's Gertrude of Wyoming. 



■}• So St. Paul, 1 Timothy, ix. /3£/3)jXoiy — avSpaitoSi<rreiti. 

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