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(24) Megiferio and (25) Johannes Henricus Mains, 
not to mention the Punic (26) abelonii of St. 
Auftin, and other fimilar inftances, that might, 
with equal facility, be produced, manifeftly prove 
the fame thing. Nor ought it to appear flrange, that 
the Punic inscription here fhould be exprefled in the 
nominative cafe ; as a parallel inftance occurs on the 
reverfe of a * (26) curious Punic coin of the ifland 
of CofTura, now in the very valuable cabinet of the 
Reverend and learned Mr. Godwyn, Fellow of 
Balliol College, Oxford, which is perfe&ly well 
preferved. As Koph therefore in (27) oriental 
names was not infrequently converted into Gamma, 
or g, both by the Latins and the Greeks, when fuch 
names were adopted by thofe nations ; it can be no 
matter of furprize, that cavl, by the aforefaid 
converflon, and the addition of a Greek or Latin 
termination, fhould become gavlos, the appellation 
affigned the ifle of Gozo by feveral antient writers. 
Hence we may conclude it more than probable, that 
(24) Girolam. Megifer. in Defcript. Melit. c. i. f. 13. 
Lipfiae, 1606. 
(25) Johan. Henric. Maius in Specim. Ling. Punic, in ho clicrn. 
MelitenJ. fuperji. § 16. f. 482. apud Petr. Burman. in Thef. 
Antiq. &c. T. XV. 
(26) Augud. de Metre fib. &V. c. Ixxxvii. Boch. Chan. 
Lib. il. c. xvi. p. 851. Francofurti ad Mcen. 1681. 
*(26) As fome of the forms of the letters on this' valuable 
coin differ from thofe of the correfpondent elements in all the 
draughts of the fimilar pieces that I have hitherto met with, 
it feems to me highly to merit the attention of the curious and 
the learned. See Tab. XI. m.3. 
(27) Bochart. ubi fup. Lib. I. c. xlii. p. 737. c. xxvii. 
p. 569. U in Phal, Lib. I. c. iii. p. 20. Franco?, ad Mcen. 
1681. 
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