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no certainty that the Carthaginians pronounced them according to fuch 

 punftuation. For inftance, the word ">m21, that forms the rhime in 

 the 6th verfe, who, fays Le Clerc, can fay whether the Carthaginians 

 pronounced it Benothai, or Benothl, or again, Bcnothe ? But it would 

 detain us too long, were we to go further into the argument. Suffice 

 it, that Bochart has Ihewn the Punic* and its tranflation by Plautus, to 

 be widely different, in that part efpecially where Hanno befeeches the 

 gods to grant him fome certain fign, by which he fliall know his nephew 

 and daughters ; of this Le Clerc very properly avails himfelf, and throw- 

 ing the whole into Chaldee charafters, confronts the fame with the 

 Roman, accompanied with his own verfion in the French, verfe for 

 verfc. 



Na eth eljonim veljonoth 



Shechoreth jifmchoun zoth 



Chi nittham milchi 



Oumithdabbre is ki 



Lephochanath oth bimtfoti 



Eth bni veth bnothi 



Brouah rob fchellahen 



Eljonim oubimjchourathehcm 



Bnoth fchenignbou /; 



Ouben achi 



Bterem moth vchanoutho 



Tha nhelachti antidamarco 



Ifch fchejada li bram thippel 



Eth chale fchchinatham kphel 



Eth ben amits 



Dibbiur tham ncot nave Agoraftodh 



Chotem chanouthi hacchior hazze 



Li chok zoth noze 



Ben hacajil hiwou li Itgboulam 



Lfchebeth tham 



Bo di ale thra inna h'tnno 



Efchal im manchar lofchmo 



Whatever 



mt pDOD^ misty 



ip icy ''-i^inm 

 5. Tiisn^ ms* Hams'? 



Tim riNT •']3 na 

 Can'^t:) yn nnz. 



•''7 133 3tt? ni3i 



10. •'nx jm 



imm mo antoi 



'^sn'? Qn^Dtt? -h^n nx 

 15. s^'ON p n« 



D^'^piaD-nawmj oipj an -nn 

 mn -ivDn Tiin amn 

 NU13 nn ptn i'7 

 a'jiaj'?"!'? >in '^''nn pi 

 On naw'7 

 •)3n N3N vin 'hv "n n-q 

 ^mi i'? 1330 ON *?««?« 



