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of this sentence, and as two qualities principally conduce to that object, diligence 

 and shrewdness, and as diligence seems here expressed by the periphrasis of 

 making a fortune such as means were afforded of making, so we may anticipate 

 that the remaining quality, shrewdness, should be alluded to in the remaining 

 expression hr'mthi. The subject we have remarked is money-making. The 

 speaker, be it remembered, is a Carthaginian {loquitur Pcenus,) of whom their 

 countryman, St. Augustine,* states, money to have been ever uppermost in their 

 thoughts, and whom also Cicerot characterizes as possessing eminently the quality 

 which fitted them for success in the pursuit, calliditas or shrewdness. One of 

 the principal expressions for this quality is in Hebrew 0*11^> in Arabic the syno- 

 nimous and nearly similar word Qby. Of these the Punic adopts the former, 

 the Libyan the latter. The Hebrew word with the particle i prefixed, Q'^ya? 

 byrim, is, in fact, a Rabbinical and Hebrew phrase, Joshua, ix. 4, Exod. xxi. 41. 

 It is in the Targum paraphrased by no5n> wisdom, (and vice versa), as a good 

 quality. And in a good sense as synonymous with rDQlDn? wisdom, it occurs in 

 the Proverbs, " I, Wisdom, dwell with a-jy. Prudence." In short the whole 

 line runs as follows : — " The old man, the testimony or report of these people is, 

 by his TZ^'yj shrewdness made the fortune for himself which ability or means were 

 afforded him of making. 



The Punic Phraseology respecting Wealth, and Shrewdness, and Success, in 

 acquiring it, collated with the Hebrew Scriptures. 



In collating this Punic line with parallel passages of Scripture, we must 

 recollect that, as aii>, calliditas, and n^^rfj sapientia, are in the Hebrew 

 and in the Targum used as convertible terms, so Isaiah (xliv. 4,) uses the Hebrew 



* St. Augustine refers to the story of the mountebank who undertook to discover in the 

 Carthaginians each man's inchnation and thoughts, and redeemed his pledge by pronouncing of them 

 all, " Vili vultis emere et care venders." — Dk Trinitate. 



f In that passage so frequently quoted, " Nee numero Hispanos, nee robore Gallos nee calli- 

 ditate Poenos, Sfc." — De Repub. Arusp. 



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