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Latin and English translation of It, It will be perceived that the part correspond- 

 ing with the Plautlne Latin, Antehac hospes hie niihi fuit Antidamas, is ren- 

 dered as follows : " Antehac consortium hie mihi fuit cum Antidamante ; pro- 

 pinquus et cams sodalis illi ego." Heretofore I had a hospitable connexion 

 with Antidamas ; a near and dear guest to him was I. Or, as it might be 

 rendered, " Hospes et cams sodalis illi ego,^' I was his guest and favourite boon 

 companion. Ycth ilec j)o ane, Sfc. Com ucr' ro lu ani. Po, the Punic pho, 

 Heb. n3» hie* Ycih=^cs = Arabic jnj?"!, wkth, a watch or clock — Kaipos, 

 tempus, tunc, aliquando. Ro, Heb. "ly-], " sodalis," a companion — boon com- 

 panion ; uer, Arab, "^pi, " chams," favourite. Com, ovhhom, 'zin^ P^opinquus, 

 qui tua cura = clientela ducitur, — a guest, an object of hospitable care.f 



So much for the idea of common hospitality, which is all that is expressed by 

 the Latin, and which in the original Libyan runs — " Heretofore I was here 

 the guest and favoured companion." In the Punic — " Hospitality — hospitable 

 accommodation — lodging here I was granted." The Scripture reference and 

 parallelism will be considered in the next paragraph. But the other view of the 

 word hospitality — the federal sense of it, remains first to be disposed of. 



That in this line, federal as well as common hospitality is implied, though not 

 expressed, the mention of the Tessera in the antipenultimate line warrants us in 

 assuming. The phraseology in which it is expressed, the ensuing scene, together 

 with the Tesseral inscriptions and other classical subsidia, will assist in detecting, 

 and our Scripture references in illustrating and confirming. In the next scene, 

 connected with the mention of the Tessera Hospitalis, we meet the significant 

 words, m,ihi cum eo, a phrase which will be found almost appropriated to federal 

 hospitality, both in technical and colloquial usage. It occurs constantly in the 

 old inscriptions on the TesserjB.J And in Cicero's Letters, in reference to the 

 persons with whom he sojourned or invited during his exile, we frequently meet 

 the phrase mihi cum eo quia necessitudo, which rendered into Hebrew, give 

 pbn IV** ioi?)D ^b ', Punice, li m-^mo iyin eleeh ; the ipsissima verba of this 

 part of the Punic passage. ^S mihi, Di?)o cum, particularly used in contracts 

 and sponsions ;§ >y«i is the illative particle, corresponding with the conjunction 



* See the Recovery. f See the Arab. Lexicons. 



X See Thomasssin on the Tessera. § 2 Sam. xxiv. 21. Job. xxxiv. 33. 



