[ 131 3 
the Tea) hither and thither, when with 
MANY TURNINGS AND WINDINGS THEY SHALL 
plough the ocean, &c. the particle 3 fometimes 
denoting qvvm, and a pleonafmus or redundancy of 
0 having not been antiently uncommon, according to 
( 21 ) Noldius. 
The two Maltefe ftones therefore adorned with this 
infcription, fimilar to many others with which we are 
fupplied by the remains of antiquity, muft beconfidered 
as votive monuments. They were erected by Diony- 
iius and Sarapion, both Tyrians, and the fons of Sara- 
pion, in confequence of a vow, to Hercules, furnamed 
the conductor, or the chief conductor, for a 
profperous voyage. That the infcription runs in the 
third perfon, not the firft, as M. l’Abbe Barthelemy 
afferts, from the correfpondent Greek one, and the 
confiderations already offered in fupport of this point, 
feems fufficiently clear. This the laft word CD3"Q% 
benedicet illis, not nobis, he will bless 
them, not us, or benedicat ipsis, may he 
bless them, not us, muft be allowed alfo indubi- 
tably to prove. 
If the preceding obfervations fhould meet with the 
approbation of the Royal Society, the following tranf- 
lations of the infcription now before me may perhaps 
not prove unacceptable to the learned. [See the In- 
fcription, Tab. XI.] 
(21) Chrift. Nold. Concordant. Particular , Ebrao-Chald. p. 353, 
354 > 470 - 7 en *> 1734 - 
XI. 
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