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inscription. That part of the Seventh letter in' 
has been conne&ed with the preceding 
element, and the other part defaced by the injuries 
of time, at hrft fight feems clearly enough to ap- 
pear ; though, had this not been the cafe, we may 
eafily conceive, from what has been already obferved, 
that the Palmyrenes Sometimes in the affix pH might 
have omitted the letter (i) Vau. The pronoun (2) 
m, or (3) *n» (not MT. (4) which is undoubtedly He- 
brew) and the words JfHDlffl Dip 
are all of them of the pure Syriac form. 
As forD'lfo DHI3LD, TIBERIVS CLAVDIVS, Seve- 
ral limilar inftances of Such Roman proper names, 
written in the Palmyrene character, have already (5) 
been produced. 
That the lad; word was originally SOLVE- 
RVNT, or rather VOTVM SOLVERVNT, HAVE 
PERFORMED THE VOW, as I have taken the 
liberty to tranflate it here, is clearly evinced by the 
latter part of the Latin infcription ; with which this 
tranllation fo exadtly corresponds. The term )i 2 b&, 
as confined to the Signification now affigned it, is 
apparently (6) Syriac j and occurs both in the (7) 
(Did and New Teftament. Hence we may conclude, 
that TIBERIVS CLAVDIVS, by the dedication of 
this altar, enabled Several of the CALBITES and 
TADMORITES, who a6ted under his command, to 
(1) See my Third Letter , p. 734. 1. 5. 
( 2) Edm. Caftel. Lex Heptaglot. p. 631, 632. Lond. 1669. 
(3) Idem. ibid. 
(4) Val. Schind. Lex. Pentaglot . p. 467. Hanoviae, 1612. Caftel. 
ubi fup. p. 1019. 
(5) See my Firji and Second Letters. 
(6) Edm. Caftel. Lex. Hcptaglot. p. 3766. 
(7) Psal. xxii, 25. Matth. v. 33. 
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