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has been laid down by the Hebrew 4 lexicographers; 
may be moft clearly evinced. 
The letters He , Zain, He , feem to conftitute the 
participle run, dormiens, decvmbens, &c. M. 
l’Abbe Barthelemy, unlefs I am deceived, takes 
the fecond of thefe elements for Jod. But this will 
neither be admitted by the form itfelf, nor the tenor 
of the infcription. The fmall ffroke, or fcratch, above 
this character, feems to be only an accidental blemifh, 
occafioned by the injuries of time. 
The participle Dm, vehementer amans, or 
intime diligens, probably begins a new fentence. 
Some doubts may perhaps arife about the power of 
the fii ft character. However, after the clofeft exami- 
nation of the infcription, it appears to me to be cer- 
tainly Refcb. 
The verb fp, tremvit, or commotvs est, im- 
mediately follows. This Chaldee word may likewife 
be rendered magno cvm affectv motvs est, and 
deduced from the Arabic, according to 5 Maius. 
The fubftantive DK, popvlvs, which immediate- 
ly follows, comes in appofitely enough here. The 
Carthaginians fometimes ufed the word p in the 
fame, or at leaf; an extremely fimilar, fenfe. This 
appears from fome of the medals 6 of Menas, now 
called Meneo, an ancient town of Sicily, fubjedt to 
the Carthaginians ; on which we find n^riD DJL po- 
f 
4 Val. Schind. Lex. Pentaglot. p.866. Hanoviae, 1612. Chrift. 
Stock. Clav. Ling. Santt. Vet. Tejl. p. 528, 529. Jenze, 1727. 
Jo. Leonhard. Reckenberg. Lib. Radio, five. Lex. Hebraic, p- 
777. Jenae, 1749. 
5 Maius, apud. Jo. Leonhard. Reckenberg. ubi fup. p. 1386. 
6 Numifm. Antiqu. &c. a Thom. Pembr. et Mont. Gomer. 
Com. Collett. P. 2. T. 87. 
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