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. chiun, like the first syllable of the Greek word for dog* in the inflected cases. 

 This is the third Punic word of the second line, and might be translated aus- 

 piciously. It escaped Bochart altagether, and the hallucination led to other 

 mistakes. It is like rite, a term of Jewish tutelary worship ; an expression of 

 affiance in the faithfulness of the tutelary God of Israel. 



Chi m'lach cun ythmu — yarv JV3 "["^nn O — " Ut iter consummarint," — 

 That my journey duly they may consummate. 



In a journey of mental anxiety and trouble, and bodily toil, Hanno prays, 

 that the tutelary powers may consummate his enterprise, iaan% ythmu. In the 

 20th Psalm, fifth verse, Arabic version, the supplication to the tutelary God of 

 Israel runs, " May he hear thee in the day of trouble, and consummate^ thy 

 purposed operations. The word in the Psalm differs in no respect, of root or 

 form, from the other, except in the omission of the polytheistic plural. 



">"in n'' Ll]'^n'''7Sa, prospering my business. Whether the distinguishing 

 the business of the journey from the journey itself may be considered as a pleo- 

 nasm, we shall not stop to inquire. What is to our present purpose to remark 

 in collating this passage with the Scriptures is, that with respect to a journey 

 having for its object the securing, as far as human prudence could, the prospect 

 of a family, or rather the recovering of that prospect, and preventing the line of 

 inheritance from becoming extinct, the words of Hanno praying for the pros- 

 pering of this business are, mtsliahhim yth dbri, nn ni Q''n"''7S0, and that in 

 the account in Genesis, of the journey of Abraham's servant, having a similar 

 end in view, the words, for the business and the prospering are Hanno's words : 

 " The servant put his hand under Abraham's thigh," we are told, " and sware 



carefulness " water ;" but God giveth the increase, and duly (in accordance with his tutelary cha- 

 racter) will give it to his beloved. This sentiment would exactly be expressed if the verse were 

 supposed to run, " Duly God will give to his beloved," not Sib sleep, but S2Ji^ increase, " remqiie 

 prolemque." The difference between the two readings, being merely the difference between a 3 

 and 2. And when it is considered how slight, and almost evanescent, that difference is ; and how 

 liable a 3 may be supposed to the loss or accidental omission of its distinctive mark ; it will not 

 appear, perhaps, an unreasonable stretch of conjectural criticism to surmise such mutilation or omis- 

 sion in the present instance, and that SaC7is an erratum for S3K7, " crescere," increase. 



* The Hebrew p, as in the accusative of xv\ goose ; the equivalent Chaldee ^V3, as in the 

 accusative of xu/, dog ; Socrates' oath, jaa k'jvo. km xV- 



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