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



Last Verse of the Punic and Libyan Passage collated with 2)arallel Passages 



of the Hebrew Scripture. 



Bo {^3, Psalm, cxxvi. 6, "veniendo" going, (see Hare's Psalter.) 

 Bo ^'2i accompanied by a local n» Gen. x. 19, T\'T\^ ii'2 JialD >V35 going 

 towards. So here, bo di alyfh, "going this way towards the high place, 



yalyf jT''?!?, occurs Judges, i. 15, " superioris tractus," (see the Hebrew 

 Concordance,) the high place, or ground, in contradistinction to the lower 

 ground, or valley. This word in the Libyan is spelled 'lict, with the guttural x, 

 like yet and noctothi and dechtas in Punic ; and ex and nasocthi in Libyan. 

 Di "1"^, is the Chaldee equivalent of the Hebrew, zeh ns sometimes spelled i^, as 

 in the Libyan. It is used in the same sense as here in Numbers, xiii. 18, 

 ascendite hac, in the Hebrew n?> Chaldee Targum j^'i-* 



nN"1N ereh. Psalm viii. 4, / shall see. HNIN eraeh. Psalm xlii. 3, / shall 



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appear ; but in the Chaldee version and Luthers, / shall see. Hence Hanno's 

 meaning may have been either / will see, or, / will appear upon the Bivium. 

 In the Libyan this word is spelled or. 



rD*>y5 linyn, bivium, Gen, xxxviii. 14, 21 ; hivio, bivio itineris, Vulgate and 

 Tremellius ; Arabic, loco conspicuo ; Syriac, bivio viarum ; Jerom, non locus 

 sed bivium ; Calmet, chemin fourche, Hebr. a la lettre.f 



In the Libyan we find i;*i1*lN aodeh, I will learn or inform myself, remind- 

 ing us of that verse. Gen. xviii. 21, "I will go down now and will see, &c. and 

 will know." Our Libyan and Punic harmonized, it will be recollected, are as 

 follows : — I will know, yilTssS or will inform, myself — I will see, n{«*")Nj going 

 this way now, {>j3 ; which will be found to correspond in sense and reading with 

 the Scripture passage. 



• The Chaldee particle '^1, it should be observed, is sometimes the relative, qui, and some- 

 times the interrogative, quis ? but never signifies aliquis, as Bochart translates it. 



■f Jerom's words in his Queestiones seu Traditiones HehraiccB in Genesis xxxviii. 14, 21, are as 

 follows : " Non est igitur nomen loci sed est sensus sedit in bivio sive compito, ubi diligenter debet 

 viator aspicere," &c. 



