Sr =. SS CU 
By the Rev. J. L. Ross. ya 
Egyptian Priesthood, with whom Joseph the great grandson of 
Abraham was connected by marriage. 
The following collation of the Phcenician and Irish languages 
will shew their affinity or even the identity of these two dialects: 
the specimen of the former being taken from a Carthaginian speech 
in the Peenulus of Plautus, Act v. Sc. i., and published by General 
Vallancey from the MSS. of O’Neachtan a celebrated Irish scholar. 
It is the address of a father to the Deities of the country to 
restore his daughters and nephew who had been taken prisoners 
by pirates. 
PHENICIAN. 
“‘Nyth al o nim va lonuth sicarathissi me com syth, 
Chim lach chumyth mum ys tyal mycthi barii imschi. 
Lipho can ethyth by mithio ad adan benuthii, 
Byr nar ob syllo homal 0 nim! ubymis isyrthoho. 
Byth lym mo thym noctothii nel ech an ti daise machon, 
Ys i de lebrim thyfe lyth chy lys chon temlyph ula.” 
“Bochart,” says Betham, “thinks the speech in Plautus is partly 
Punic and partly Libyan. The first lines (given above) he says are 
Punic, and he thus describes them in the Hebrew. 
HEBREW. 
‘Na eth elgonim veelgonath sechorath iismecun zoth, 
Chi malachai jitthemu: maslia middabarehen iski. 
Lepburcanath eth beni eth gad udi ubenothen 
Berua rob sellahem elgonim ubimesuratiben. 
Beterem moth anoth othi helech Antidamarchon 
Is segada il; Beram tippel eth chele sechinatim leophel.” 
Latin: by Bochart. 
“‘Rogo Deos et Deas qui hanc regionem tuentur 
Ut consilia mea compleantur: Prosperum sit ex ductu eorum negotium meum. 
Ad liberationem filii mei manu praedonis, et filiarum mearum. 
Dii per spiritum multum qui estis in ipsis, et per providentiam suam. 
Ante obitum diversari apud me solebat Antidamarenus, 
Vir mihi familiaris; sed is eorum cotibus junctus est quorum habitatio est in 
caligine.” 
Irisu. 
“Niaith allo nimh uath lonnaithe! socruidhse me comsith, 
Chimi lach chuinigh! muini is toil, miocht beiridh iar mo scith. 
Liomptha can ati bi mitche ad éadan beannaithe, 
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