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Nothing can be more satisfactory than the application of our Libyan criterion 

 to the sixth line. For the V\xmc yss, fel, chil, (grandcevus fecit rem), we have 

 the Libyan duplicates ess, f el, eel: for the Punic hrimti, (calliditate sua), we have 

 the Libyan synonyme alem [in] ; and for the Punic id ele, the Libyan synonyme 

 duhert, both equivalent to the Latin aiunt. The remaining words s and liphul 

 having been shewn in the precognition to be Punic duplicates, equivalent to 

 quod faciundum, and co ntn being shewn to be a Hebrew Scripture phrase. 



In the seventh line, ben, ysd, nuchth, Agorastocles, agreeing with the corres- 

 ponding Libyan line in the vocables bent, vosd, tena, Achorastocles, so determine 

 the reading, that any other essentially different from, or inconsistent with such 

 reading, must be erroneous. For the Punic thyn of that line has been shewn to 

 be a Punic duplicate equivalent to the Latin hie ; and the only remaning voca- 

 ble is either buth, as some editions read, (and above explained, as having nuchth 

 for its adjunct ;) or as other copies dibur, corresponding with the Libyan duher. 



The eighth verse is in the Latin, Deum hospitalem ac tesseram mecumfero : 

 accordingly we have in the Punic, a^li chats nasu ; and in the Libyan, celi chos 

 nasocte* With respect to which word chots, I have ascertained that it, and 

 not choch, (as in the editions I used), is given in all the standard manuscripts 

 and the editio piinceps, as the true reading, signifying moiety, half (Latin) 

 dimidium — a meaning expressly included in that of tessera, as consisting of two 

 counterparts, tallying with each other ;f and in this sense obviously alluded to in 

 the following scene by Hanno : " Tesseram conferre si vis hospitalem, eccam 

 attuli" {nasocte) ; to which his host responds, " Est par probe nam habeo 

 domi." In this part of the verses, the Punic and Libyan are duplicates. In the 

 other part of the description of a tessera as a tablet, constituting a true and secret 

 countersign, they harmonize as synonymous expressions. The Punic, yth eme- 

 neth cheres, signum veritatis tabula. The Libyan, et tese li^Quhh) sigmim 

 occultum tabula. 



* As, for balbeit, bailee ; for carthada, carchedon ; for yth of the first Punic, ex of tlie first 

 Libyan line : and for the word pronounced datas by the slave in the next scene, dechtas in the 

 mouth of the Carthaginian ; so for yth dibari, yctibari ; for nuttothi, noctothi ; for nasithi, nasocte ; 

 for alyt, of the Punic, alyct, of the Libyan. 



f Fuit antiqui moris, tesseram dari \ios^\i\h\is dimidiatam. — Calepini Diet. Octoling. in verb. 

 Tessera. 



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