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CHRii which Teems to be a phrafe of the very fame 
import in Chaldee that the kSd Wti, dbscen- 
dentes funt, or rather descendvnt, in carce- 
rem, of our infcription is in Phoenician. The par- 
ticiple being in conlfrudtion here, may, how- 
ever, be confidered either as a Chaldee, Hebrew, 
or Phoenician word. As for the terms EZ&yS* 
in jETERNVM carcerem, they are To obvious and 
clear that they, require no farther difcufiion in this 
place. 
14. . The two following words, fyjxS ’DD, with 
the three preceding, form the third fentence, or 
part of the infcription. The drft of them, 
deduced from mo, mori, emori, and in con- 
ftrudlion, is a participle converted into a noun, 
and may be tranflated mortvi, or rather occisi, 
here. In this latter fenfe it occurs, in Isai. xxii. 2 s 
•It may alfo be rendered homines, or viri insignes, 
according to Cocceius. But the former Teems to be 
the mod; obvious and natural fignification. The fe- 
cond of thefe words, rV 2 tib, is undoubtedly the name 
of Amathus, a celebrated city of Cyprus, that was 
governed by it’s own princes for a confiderable pe- 
riod of time. The particle ^ points out the genitive 
cafe in our infcription,. as it does in the proper names 
py 1 ?, LETZIDON, Tjb , LETZOR, Or LETZVR, OU‘ 
the Tyrian and Sidonian coins. The fame thing 
may fometimes be . laid of this particle, when the 
word immediately preceding it is in condxudtion, 
(62) as we find manifeftly to be the cafe here; 
From the infcription before me it appears, that the 
Phoenician name., of Amathus was amatii, 
(62) Vid. Reckfiibcrg. ubi fup. p. 82S, 
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