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



The word is moreover sometimes used to designate divination and the kind of 

 knowledge attributed to magicians. Indeed the name of the magician or sor- 

 cerer, in the Acts of the Apostles, Elymas, seems derived from a"?!?. 



Punic and Libyan Phraseology respecting the Hospitality of the Ancients 



explicated. 



Hospes hie mihifuit Antidamas. 



Byth li nrjmo thyn nothothi iyn elech Antidamas chun. 

 Ycth ilec po'ni Antidamascon hhom ncr ro" lu ani. 



The leading idea in this verse is Hospitality, including both the^M* hospitii, or 

 federal hospitality of the ancients, and also hospitable entertainment. Some light 

 is thrown upon the phraseology applied to both meanings by that of the ensuing 

 scene, and by the more technical phraseology also of federal hospitality preserved 

 in the copies still extant of Tesserte and such docume* ts. With respect to com- 

 mon hospitable entertainment, Hanno's hereditary host, on recognizing him as 

 his hereditary guest, sajs, " ergo hospitium hie tibi prcebebitur." According to 

 which form of expression, Hanno's reminiscence of the hospitalities afforded him 

 would run in Latin — hospitium hie mihi prcebebatur ; or according to Horace's 

 phrase in the fifth Satire, lib. i. " Muraena praebente domum," Domus hie 

 prcebebatur (= hospitio hie exceptus fat) ^c, but in the Hebrew or Oriental 

 idiom, hospitio — donfio donalus fui, which reduced to Hebrew, will give beth — 

 thyn nuitothi, *ijTn>7)5 ^j-j n«i2-* Words which, I need not add, are immediately 

 detected in the Punic. Thus we find the Latin, although a fair and spirited, is 

 by no means a literal translation of the Punic. The Libyan and Latin are here 

 much nearer to each other. By reference to the Libyan tabular matter, and the 



* On the pronunciation noctothi for noththoihi, like yctdibiri for ythdibri, in a former line, and 

 like dechtas for datas in the following scene, it is intended to offer some remarks in a note at the end 

 of this paper. ^ 



