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the reverfe a hoiTe’s head, under which appears the 
infcription, that is one of the principal obje<fts of 
my attention, in this paper. It will be almoif need- 
lefs to remark, that the horfe’s head is one of the moft 
ufual fymbols on the reverfes of the antient Cartha- 
ginian coins. 
With regard to the third character here, taken by 
me for He^ I would beg leave to remark, that 'it is 
the crefcent, or lunated form of the Greek Epjiloni 
which was a figure of that element of a pretty high 
antiquity, though not the (30) firfi: ufed by the 
Greeks. That it w'as as early in Sicily as Julius 
Caefar’s days, has been proved from (31) the coins of 
Entella, coeval with that emperor. And that it was 
known in Italy many years, perhaps feveral genera- 
tions, before (32) the finilhing ftroke was given to 
the Roman republic, is clearly evinced by a moft 
curious minute Greek fepulchral infcription, publifli- 
ed by P. D. Gianfrancefco Baldini, of which a par- 
ticular account will be found in the very valuable 
work referred to here. Nay, in Greece it feems to 
have a long time preceded this monument (33), as 
may be inferred from two minute infcription s pre- 
ferved On two antient Greek ftatues of Speufippus 
and Xenocrates, mentioned by a very learned 
modern author. It may therefore, with fufficient 
(30) Sig. Haverc. De Lit. Grac. Dijfert. p. 248, 249. in Sylloge 
Scriptor. qui de ling. Grac, ver, et re£l. pronun. &c. Lugdun. 
Batavorum, 1736. 
(31) Fil. Parut. La Sicil. num. Tab. cxivi n. 2, 3. Sig. Hav. 
ubi fup. 
(32) Sag. di Dijprtaz. Accademich. di Gorton, Tom. II. p, 
137. in Roma, 1738. 
(33) Haverc. ubi Tup. p. 248. 
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