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With regard to the proper name abda- 
sar, or abdasar vs, I can by no means believe it 
to be the fame with abdastartvs. That thofo 
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two words had not the fame origin, feems to me, at 
firft fight, felf-evident. This is likewile confirmed 
(8) by a writer of great erudition. But the ac- 
count I have (9) already given of the Phoenician 
name abdasar, lupported by the bed 
authorities, will, I flatter mylelf, fet this matter in 
the cleared light. 
(10) I formerly obferved, that aserimor, ase- 
rimar, or aserim-hammar, was probably com- 
pofed of aserim, or aserym, AIEPTMOS, the name 
of one of the kings of Tyre, according to Menander 
Epheflus, and TJ, mar, or rather non, hammar, 
ipse dominvs. But M. 1’Abbe, (n) in the piece 
before me, takes it to be perfectly equivalent to 
the word ASEPYMOS itfelf ; the Greeks feeming 
to him to have terminated in OS the Phoenician pro- 
per names ending in OP, as the other natives of Greece 
did feveral words uled by the Lacedaemonians of the 
fame termination. To which 1 fhall beg leave to re- 
ply, that the Greek dialed: of the Lacedaemonians 
was widely different from the Phoenician tongue ; 
and confequently that all arguments drawn from 
their fuppofed agreement, or affinity, mud be falla- 
cious and inconclulive. Nor will the compofition of 
the name “)0“aiDX, or norrcnDN, aserim- 
hammar, viz. "OTTO NS ASHERAH-MAR, LV- 
(8) Matth. Hiller. Onima/I. Sacr. p. 590. Tubjngoe, 1706, 
(9) See above, p. 127, 128. 
(10) See above, p.129. 
(nj Mem, de Litter . ubi Cup. p, 410, 41 1. 
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