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



The six Libyan Ldnes in Hebrew Characters, with Translation. 



*'l^:)^2W'^ ^p tin ^'Sn cn mpw niDibMi Q"'3ibs n 

 •>»tt;»t»i i:n nph rb ni'^a rr'-i \-n3b bns wn-' n^n 

 nstti nv3 iDiN bye mm I'^abs ibornTis ww^ ^2n >^3 pbn np 

 Db3t2Dn«ns Tii'-a i2-t ID") DS N2m ''3S lb r"-i -ip^ can en b^n 



T • " 



inatt? ssD cpn mn msi nabyi ph ^bs •'b TiNtr: ■'sas stcta n^ 

 rb nn2» j=in bNtPS") y^D n su nsis n^bv "Ssn vtik 



Decs deasque qui urbem, quinetiam iter habentem peregrinum in solitudine, tuentur ; 



Gratia et favore consummarint luctuosum iter meum et liberos (defatigatione confectum) repperire 



desiderium et delicias meas (sinant) 

 Ante hac consortium hie mihi fuit grandaevo cum Antidamante. Callidate aiunt fecisse liabitationis 



suai domum, quinetiam 

 Divitias hie. Propinquus et carus sodahs illi ego. Et habitationem equidem posuit fama (est) 



filius ejus Agorastocles. 

 Signum occultum egomet fero mecum Deus mens sculptura. Adolescens, fama est antiquum locum 



patefecit et habitationem suani. 

 Certiorem me faciam egomet, exqelsum videbo, eundo hac qua concursus — et interrogabo equidem 



ex sedibus egredientem. 



• By comparing the first Funic line with the corresponding part of the Libyan, it appears that the principal corrup- 

 tion of the latter consists in occasionally transposing the radical letters, and also substituting t< for n- 



