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First, with respect to the local particle hie, given amongst the various readings ; 

 its Hebrew-Punic equivalent rig, pho, is immediately discovered in the place where 

 it might be expected, before n3p, repperire, and where it was in fact detected 

 by the writer of this Essay before he was aware of the support of that reading 

 in the Latin version, which confirmed the Punic reading and interpretation. 

 It makes with repperire most excellent sense, and is in harmony with Hanno's 

 subsequent prayer, that the business of his journey might that day be brought 

 to a consummation.* Second, siritis, (repperire siritis), permit,— Javour — by 

 divine interposition lead to the recover}/, &c. Of Hanno's journey for the 

 recovery of his children, it is said in the prologue. Terra marique undequdque 

 quceritat, ^-c. — characterizing it as a journey of search, in which the obstacle to 

 success consists in the uncertainty of the route and point of destination. In such 

 case the means necessary for overcoming that obstacle, and, accordingly, the 

 objects of prayer, must be guidance, direction, and instruction. Thus, iEneas 

 alludes to the guidance of his goddess mother, onatre ded monstrante viam ; 

 and Ceres " passioning" for the abduction of her daughter exclaims on setting 

 out in search of her, Quis monstrator erit.f Now for monstrare docere, &c., to 

 direct, guide, instruct, the Hebrew equivalent is the well known Hebrew word 

 'jOv&n. In the participial form, like D"'n"''72Ja, (but in regimen, before the suffix 

 ('''7''D^a,) it it is discovered between the word mi, dibari, in the second line, 

 and the word rjQ, pho, in the third, part of it ending one Punic line, the 

 remainder beginning the next, (as those lines stand divided in the text,) 13 

 riD 'h'^yv^ nDnn'' L:Dn"''72iD ion*' — "l'7na ut iter consummarint secundantes 

 rem-meam docentes-me hie repperire, &c.J 



Rite itself being a religious term, may be referred to the next section, viz. 



* Poenulus, Act V. Sc. 4, line 15. 



"j" Claudian Raptus Proserp. Lib. iii. v. 429, p. 12.3, Rich. Heber's edition, vol. ii. 

 " Where shall I seek ? — What lands my darling hide ? 

 Who'll show the prints, and be my faithful guide ?" 



Hughes' Translation. 

 \ It may be repeated here, that as the synonimes for journey are m'lach and derech ; so for 

 the success of a journey the Hebrew synonimes are Dan and rTibsn and V''D££'n, and that the 

 foUowfng are Scripture phrases respecting a journey — make way perfect — consummate a journey — 

 direct, instruct in the u-ay. So that in a Hebrew^Chaldee concordance under the word "jn, vjo, 

 synonime of "fbna iter, all the above phrases and synonimes will be found. 

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