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been rightly taken in the part under confideration, 
may appear probable from hence, that the word 
C3*0** or py. in the plural number, fecms to be 
naturally connected with the numeral Four, and 
occw s ( 6 ) adtmlly connected with that numeral in the 
Old Teftament. Unlefs it ihould be faid, that what 
now appears upon the face of the infcription as the 
lad: letter Nun was originally, though altered by 
time, the Palmyrene numeral character expreffing 
Twenty; to which indeed at prefent it is not 
much unlike. Which if we admit, the word 
in the lingular number, muft be allowed to have a 
connection here with the numeral Twenty- 
four. Nor are limilar instances of fuch a con- 
nexion difficult to be found. Nay, the very ex- 
predion CT]? DV3. DIE VICESiMO 
QVARTO, ON THE TWENTY - FOVRTH 
DAY, prefen ts itfelf to our view Hag. i. if. From 
whence lome perfons will be apt to conclude, that 
nothing can be more juft than the emendation here 
prcpofed. Jt may not be impioper to obferve, that 
the Palmyrene infcription publilhed by Gruter and 
M. Spon, has ( 7 ) been prefer ved on a marble, that 
formerly remained in the gardens belonging to Car- 
dinal Carpegna, and afterwards in thole of the 
Princes J ffiiniani, near St. John Lateran, at Rome. 
I fhall take the liberty to infert here the Syrian, or 
Syro -Chaldean, and Syro-Macedonian names of the 
aforefaid months, in order the more clearly to point 
out the difference between them and thofe of the 
Palmyrenes. 
(6) Jud. xi. 40. 
(7) Montfauc. V Antiquite Expliyuce, Tom. II. par. ii. p. 391. 
A Paris, 1719. 
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