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TVLVS MENARVM, or POPVLVS MENENIVS, to Omit 
others that might with equal facility be produced, as I 
have many years fince obferved. For a farther ac- 
count of CDSt I mud beg leave to refer the cu- 
rious to the Hebrew lexicographers, and particu- 
larly to Maius 7 . r 
The next word in ponendo, or* rather 
QVVM PONERETVR, (i. e. 'm®'?, Or IN SE- 
pvlchro, or IN terra) occurs in the very fame 
fenfe, Psal. xlix. 15. which pad'age throws confidera- 
blc light upon this part of the inlcription. That the 
Punic diaiedt of the Phoenician, the language of our 
infcription, was not without luch ellipfes as that men- 
tioned here, mud: be allowed probable enough, if 
* Bochart’s Latin verfion of the Punic words in Plau- 
tus may be confidered as not very remote from truth. 
The three lad words of the infcription are appa- 
lently “pOID p hannibal filivs barme- 
LEC, BARMILC, BORMILC, Or BARMELECI. As the 
letter r in the converfion of Oriental words into 
Greek is fometimes lod, the Carthaginian name 
barmelec, or bormilc, might have been pro- 
nounced bomilc (and perhaps bomilcar) both by 
tlie Greeks and the Romans. For that the ge- 
nuine Carthaginian names, when either written or 
pronounced by the individuals of thofe nations, were 
not a little corrupted and depraved, I think we have 
no manner of reafon to doubt. 
7 Maius, apud Jo. Leonh. Reckenberg. ubi fup. p. 51. 
* Vld - St °ck. et Reckenberg. in vocib. /W et fintP. 
Boch. Chan. Lib. II. c. vi. 
9 Id, ibid. c. vii, viii, xi. 
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