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infcription, fcen afterwards by fome English travellers 
at Teibe, as well as by the fecond Roman Palmy- 
rene one, will, I perfuade myfelf, fcarce admit of any 
doubt. Now that the Greeks fometimes reprefented 
Ajin , and ( i y ) particularly the Syriac Ajin> or Ae, by 
their Gamma , is very well known ; and that the two 
powers of the Ajin % one of which was equivalent to 
that of G, are to this day acknowledged by the 
Arabs, who Rill exprefs them by their letters Ain 
and Gain i the latter of which correfponds with G, 
is too ( 16) apparent to Rand in need of any kind of 
proof. From whence we may oonclude, that the 
elements I am now confidering, together with the 
initial letter defaced by the injuries of time, and the 
vowels which they virtually contained, probably form- 
ed the word BOLOGASHI, BOLOGASI, BOLA- 
GASI, or VOLOGESI, varying only in termination 
from the Greek BOAArACOT, and the Latin VO- 
LOGESIS ; the former of which fo frequently oc- 
curs upon the Parthian coins. 
5. That I (1) was a Syriac, Chaldee, or Palmy- 
rene termination oi mafeuline proper names, feems 
fufficiently to appear from an infcription I have at- 
tempted to explain in one of (17) my former letters; 
nnd that this termination was fometimes converted into 
HS (ES) by the (18) Greeks, has been admitted by- 
Hiller and Bochart, two authors extremely well ver- 
(15) Boch. Chan. Lib. II. cap. xii. p.824. Francofurti al 
Mo:n. 1681. 
(16) Vid. Erpen. Gram. Arab. 
(17) Philofoph. Tran faH. Vol. xlviii. p.732. 
(18) Matth. Hiller. Onomiji. Sacr, p.671. Tubingae, 1706. 
Boch. Phal. Lib. II. c. xix. p. 126. 
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