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N33, ( 59 ) agreeing perfectly in fignification with it, 
feems inconteftably to prove. 
From what has been advanced we may conclude, 
that the Phoenician words DUD oty, on our ftone* 
are equivalent to secvli, or vit^r, dolor is, i. e’. 
vital infelicifer acta-;, as I have taken the li-. 
berty to render them here. 
13. The next word is ’Jinj, descendentes, or 
rather descendvnt, the verb svnt being fuppreffed, 
as amongft the Hebrews it frequently happened to 
be. The radix of this participle is rim, d,escen-, 
dit, a verb well enough known to the Hebrews, 
but fiequently ufed by the Chaldees; who generally ( 
applied to it the fignification of the verb *n% as it 
prevailed amongft the Hebrews, according to (60). 
Buxtorf. It muft be remarked, that tt'l 2 ,C 2 byb 
ought to be deemed the fame expreftion as 
the word cbyb having had different po-. 
fitions antiently afhgned (61) it in a fentence by f 
the Hebrews, and therefore undoubtedly by the' 
Phoenicians. In the Chaldee feveral paftages fimilar, 
to this part of our infcription are to be found. 
So *^»n > SICVT DESCENDENTES IN F 0 -. 
veam fepulchri, occurs, in Prov. i. 12. ' 11112 , 
DESCENDENTES AD MARE, in IsAI. xlii. IO. And 
in Psal. cxliii. 7. we meet with NfiTQp no.DIX 
Wtt Op, CVM DESCENDENTIBVS IN FOVEAM SEFVL- 
( 59 ) Johan. Buxtorf. F. Lex. Chald. Talm. & Rabbin . 
p. 1 00 1. Bafileae, 1639. 
(60) Johan. Buxtorf. F. Lex. Cbald. Talm. & Rabbin. 
P< I 33 °- 
(61) F. Mar. de Calafi. Concordant. Sacror. Biblior. Htlraiior. 
m voc. P* 592-602. Lond. 1747. 
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