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propriety, be fuppofcd as ancient as at lead: the later 
ages of the Carthaginian empire in Sicily, if not 
much older. That the moft ancient form of the 
Greek Epfilo?! was alfo fometimes impreffed upon the 
Punic medals of Mens, is rendered inconteftable by 
a moft valuable tetradrachm of that city, publiftied 
(34) by M. Pellerin. The firft letter of the legend, 
on the reverfe of that tetradrachm., is the Punic yf/;?, 
not very accurately taken; and the third is undoubt- 
edly the oldeft Phoenician, Samaritan, and Greek 
figure of He or Epfiloriy brought by Cadmus out of 
Phoenicia, and reprefenting, according (35) to Euri- 
(34) Peller. Recueil de Mcdaill. Tom. Troif. p. 22. pi. 
S8. n. 8. A Paris, 1763. The city of Mena;, the of 
Ptolemy, was built by Deucetius, king of the Siculi, butfubjeit 
to the Carthaginians, from the days of Dionyfius the elder, king 
of Syracufe, to the time of Timoleon, the Corinthian, according^ 
to Diodorus Siculus ; in fome part of which interval, the piece 
I have been confidering, as well as all others fimilar to it, was 
probably ftruck. From Menae’s being a town of the Siculi, 
and inhabited by them and the Greeks, M. Barthelemy infers, 
that it never was fubjedl to the Carthaginians, and that there- 
fore the piece in queilion could not poffibly have made its firft 
appearance there. But the former cf thefe afl'ertions is exprefsly 
contradi( 5 lcd by Diodorus Siculus, and therefore the latter of 
them muft necefl'arily fall to the ground. Of this the learned 
antiquary above-mentioned feems to have been fufficicntly aware, 
when he declares, that he docs not give us for dcmonftratiou 
what he has advanced on this head. I muft beg leave here far- 
ther to remark, that the word cannot well he tranflated 
Caftra here, as the proper names of cities are generally, if not 
always, pointed out to us, by the legends on the reverfes of fuch 
coins. Died. Sic. lib. xi. 0. 78. Vid. etiam lib. xii. xiii» 
xiv. See the Univ. Hi/i. Vol. VII. p. 533 I-ond, 1747. 
(33) Euripid. et Agath, Tragic, apud Athen. Deipnojoph. 
lib. X. c. 20. 
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