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about thirty miles in circumference, was (15) occu- 
pied by the Phoenicians in very early times, and af- 
terwards by the (16) Greeks. When the latter were 
pofiefifed of it, the capital, named alfo gavlos, was 
one of thofe cities called by the Greeks AYTONOMOI, 
governed by it’s own laws, and confequently, as 
it fhould feem, a kind of free independent Hate. 
This may be fairly inferred from feveral antient 
coins of that city, to be met with in the cabinets 
of the great and the curious, with the Greek 
word TATAIT UN upon them. The Carthaginians 
therefore (17), who probably fucceeded the Greeks in 
the occupation of this ifland, may reafonably be pre- 
iumed likewife to have coined money in that capital, 
with a Punic infcription upon it. Nor can this well 
be denied, as medals of Cofyra, or ColTura, denomi- 
nated by the moderns Pantallaria, adorned with fuch 
an infcription (18), fometimes occur; though that 
ifland, whatever figure it might have made when pof- 
fefied by the Carthaginians, was confiderably fmaller 
than gavlos, known at prefect by the name of Gozo. 
The Phoenicians and Carthaginians feem to have af- 
iigned the latter, when mailers of it, the appellation of 
kavl, orcAvL; which may, perhaps, be deemed 
equivalent to the (19) Hebrew bp, kal, light. 
(15) Diod. Sic. ubi Tup. Phil. Cluvcr. Sicil. Antiqu. Lib. II. 
p. 444. Lugd. Batavor. 1619. 
(16) Sil. Italic. Lib. XIV. ver. 274. Phil. Cluvcr. ubi fup. 
P 445- 
(17) Scyl. Peripl. Burchard. Niderfted. Malt. Vet. & Nov. 
p. 35. Helmeftadii, 1660. 
(18) Saggi di Dijfertazion. Accadem'icb. See. Tom. I. p. 31/ 
(19) Val. Schuid. Lex. Pentaglot. p. 1615. Hanoviae, 1612. 
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