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laft word of this infcription pn, cheren, cherin,' 
KEPIN, or KEPTNj which if we admit, together 
with what has been advanced, relative to the preceding 
dubious character, we may readily propofe to the 
confideration of the learned world the following in* 
terpretation. 
rr„w nhnh 
fJTD ~pD 
pn m 
DVCTOR A M ATHVNTI S 
REX CITII 
PRINCEPS CERYNI^E. 
In the fir ft word of the fecond line I fuppofe an 
apocope of the letter Caph, on account of the fol- 
lowing one ; fomething analagous to this having 
been obferved, as not unufual amongft the Phoeni- 
cians, by the learned Bochart, in the origin he af- 
ligns the name melcarthvs. Nor has M. 1 ’Abbe 
himfelf difapproved of M. Bochart’s notion. If the 
liberty of making this and the other flight alterations 
fhould be indulged me, and I think it would be no 
unreafonable indulgence, the infcription would be 
illuftrated by (90) Diodorus Siculus j feem to prove 
that the Cerynians joined the Citieans, Amathuflans, 
and Solians, in the Cyprian war, though (forming 
then, perhaps, a much more inconfiderable /bate than 
any of the others) they are not mentioned by that 
hiftorian ; and appear to be coeval with the Citiean 
(90) Diod. Sic. ubi Cup. Lib, XIX. p. 703, 705, 715, &c. 
infcriptions, 
