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I. The fir ft word, anac, or onec, feems 
to have denoted the hme thing in Syriac (41) and 
Phoenician that ONYH did in Greek, and onyx in 
Latin. Butthe fame fpeciesof marble was denominated 
both onyx and ALABASTRiTES,as we (42) learn from 
Pliny, and other good authors. It cannot therefore 
well be doubted, but that “ptf, anac, or onec, 
here may cither be tranflated llridlly and literally / 
alabastrites, or be rendered with fuffieient pro- 
priety by the more general term marmor. The 
Cyprian Hone itfelf, on which the infcription has 
been preferved, being a fine white alabafter, or per- 
fect alabastrites, puts the point here infilled on 
almoll beyond difpute. 
2.1 have already given fo full and particular 
an account of the fecond word ‘iDJ'TOib which is a 
Phoenician proper name of a man, in my former re- 
marks, (43) that it would be intirely fuperfluous 
and unnecelfary to take any notice of it here. 
3. That the third word, p,; ben, which occurs 
afterwards in the firfl line, is equivalent to the Latin 
filivs, I have (44), in a former work, rendered 
incontellably clear. 
(41 ) Johan. Buxtorf. Lex. Chaldaic, & Syriac, p. 25. Bailie®, 
1622. 
("42) Plin. -Nat. Hifi. Lib. XXXVI. c. 7, 8. Lib. XXXVII. 
c. 5,6. Hor. Carm. Lib. IV. od. 12. Martial. Epigram . . Lib. 
VII. ep. 93. Dioi'corid. Lib. V. c. 153. Ifdor. Lib. XVI. 
c., 15. 
(43) See above, p. 127, *28. 
(44) Infcript. Cit. p. 22. Oxon. 1750, 
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