Collated with parallel Passages of the Hebrew Scriptures. 53 



Phraseology of the last Punic and Libyan Lines explicated. 

 Bo di alyfh eraeh n'-^nin 'n\ Uys'l im mmnuchoth luzim. 



Eundo hac via excelsum-versus videbo nunc bivium ego : et interrogabo 



equidem ex cBdibus egredientes. 

 Aode ane& lict or bo de si us'l im mnico lus. 



n"? nmD»n a^ "^ti^m t!d •'I nu hj^^ij^ n'''?^ '>53i^ )fiM^- 



Certiorem mefaciam egomet excelsum videbo eundo hac qua concursus 

 et interrogabo equidem ex cedibus egredientes. 



To understand the untranslated part of the tenth Punic line, we must bear in 

 mind what has been touched on in the preliminary view of this latter section, 

 that the head of the bivium, or chief place of concourse, of the Proverbs, was the 

 place to which strangers directed their course in order to recognize, or be recog- 

 nized by those to whom the ties of common business or other connexion attracted 

 them, and that the bivium was called pji, ynyn, and the head of it the high 

 place. 



To go therefore in the direction which led to this eminence or height, that 

 he might see the bivium, and be seen, and address his inquiries to the people 

 passing out of the houses, in one of which his friend was supposed to reside, 

 would naturally be the course he would resolve on. Bo di ylith era n'-^nyn 

 n'uys'l mmnuchoth luzim — going this way toward the high place, I will see now 

 the bivium, and will interrogate the persons going out from the houses. 



In the Libyan, instead of |^5y, bivium, the place of concourse, we have the 

 synonime or equivalent y«iO, concursus, concourse itself. 



The Libyan bo, de, 'lict, or, he. will be found to correspond with the Punic 

 bo, di, alyVh, eraeh, &c. The first Libyan word of the verse aode will be noticed 

 in the next paragraph. 



