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Job, xxix. 7> " When I went out of the gates near the corath, city." Prov. 

 viii. 3, " Wisdom crieth at the entry of the corath, city." 



Corresponding with the words of the first Punic line are those of the Libyan, 

 with this difference, that immediately before the Libyan word messecun= esse- 

 macun, corresponding with the Punic isimacon, we find the clause im (misti =) 

 mitsi atti cu, which will be found parenthetically to include the traveller as well 

 as the town under the guardianship of the tutelary powers : "im" moreover; 

 " atti cu" the lonely or herefi stranger ; " mitsi" journeying or on his way* 

 The two principal words, atti and mitsi, both occur in the sixteenth chapter of 

 the first Epistle to the Corinthians, fourth and twenty-second verses.f 



Argument of the latter Section of the Punic Monologue. 



Having invoked the divine favour and divine vengeance, Hanno now 

 bethinks him of human aid, and of putting in requisition the services of Agoras- 

 tocles, his old host's adopted son, and presenting to him as his introduction the 

 Tessera Hospitalis. 



The federal and hereditary hospitality of the ancients would seem to have 

 had for its object to secure the hospitable reception and accommodation of tra- 

 vellers against the fickleness of private friendship, the fluctuation of international 

 wars, and the changes and casualties of fortune and mortality. The covenanting 

 individuals died, but the connexion and their beneficial interest in it vested in 

 their representatives. Until the family on either side became extinct, and so 

 long as either of the parties was in possession of a residence and establishment to 

 qualify him as host, the other, on producing the hereditary tessera, was recog- 

 nized as a guest, and helped as a friend. If we suppose one of the parties to 

 such an hereditary contract on arriving in a town, to address to himself, or one 

 of his attendants, the reflection that by virtue of it he had formerly been 



* See the lexicons, Schindler, Castello, Giggeius, &c. 



f The collating of the Invocation with the Hebrew Scriptures being for the reasons above 

 alluded to, not requisite for further elucidating or confirming the explication of it, is reserved with 

 other matter for the conclusion of this paper. 



