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



quia, Sfc. j?^n>* the appropriate expression, corresponding with kolvcoviu, ix€pis, 

 consortium, participatio, — -fellowship =znecessitudo, Sfc, literally, as in the 

 Vulgate, pars ; whence our English version expresses it in different passages, 

 some of them having reference to the fellowship of hospitality, in place of having 

 connexion or no connexion — having j9ar^ or no part with the persons alluded to. 

 Examples of this will come more fitly to be noticed in collating vrflth the Hebrew 

 Scriptures. It may be observed, for the present, that as in the Hebrew versions 

 of the New Testament, the equivalent {or part is p'^pij so in both New and Old 

 Testament the same word occurs with ay and Qya.f The notes in Poles' 

 Synopsis explain the expression by making pars equivalent to commercium : 

 " Hebra^a erat formula sive proverbialis locutio qua negabant sibi cum aliquo 

 futurum commercium." Comparing this part of the Punic with the Libyan, we 

 find the significant word elech, or ilec, implying federal hospitality common to 

 both, but in the Libyan placed at the beginning, as in the Punic at the end of the 

 sentence, for the same reason however, as being the most important and cardinal 

 expression. We shall also find that between the expression for the federal con- 

 nexion of hospitality and the exercise and participation of it on the part of host 

 and guest, there intervenes in the.Libyan the account of the old host's subsequent 

 fortunes. A peculiarity of the Libyan, which is pointed out the rather as being 

 a justification of the arrangement proposed and acted on of treating the Punic 

 line on that subject as & parenthesis ; which arrangement had been made before 

 what had been dealt with as virtually parenthetical in the Punic, was proved to 

 he formally so on subsequently examining and comparing that passage with the 

 Libyan. 



* pbn, as Henoch is pronounced and spelled Enoch, so Helech — Elech, the n being left 

 mute. 



f 2 Sam. XX. 1 Kings, xii. 16. 



