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nounce it Rejch. The fourth will be allowed to re- 
prefent Ghimel , as that element appears in fome of 
the (21) Palmyrene infcriptions, and particularly 
that found (22) at Teive. The fixth, as I appre- 
hend, muft pafs for Thau. Now the words formed 
of thefe letters, no JDtD, mizzerag moth, or 
mtsserag mvth, may be rendered ab implec- 
TENDO (c'OLLIGANDO, CONNECTENDO, &C,) 
mors, or rather a connectione (colliga- 
T ION E, IMPLEXV, CONGRESSV, &C.) MORS, 
from the connection (seizure, attack, 
&c.) comes death. In Hebrew the fecond letter 
of the fir ft word here is Sin, in Chaldee Samech , and in 
Arabic Ze. That in all thefe languages, however, 
the term is nearly the fame, and has nearly the fame 
fignification annexed to it, we learn (23) from fome 
of the beft lexicographers. 
Nor can any thing be more confonant to the na- 
ture of the fymbol on the reverfe than the fenfe here 
atfigned the infeription. They may both perhaps 
be luppofed to have alluded to the Indian mannei of 
hunting ftags with lions, mentioned by /Elian (24), 
which might formerly likewife have prevailed in 
Cilicia j or to the production of thofe (25) animals, 
which were anciently fo numerous in that country ; 
or laftly to fome remarkable event, that not impro- 
•'(21) Pbilofoph. Tranfaft. Vol.XLVIII. p.693, 74°* 
(22) See Vol. LV1. Tab. I. Fig. 1. p. 5. 
(23) Va 1 . Schind. Johan. Buxtorf. F. Lex. Cbald. Tarn. & 
Rabbin. Leonh. Reckenb. & Jo. Chrift. Clod. Lex. Hebr. Selcfl. 
Lipfiae, 1744* n 
(24) ^Elian. de Animal. Lib. XVII. c. xxvi. P- 99°* L '°" 
Ionix Allobrogum, 1616. 
(25) ./Elian. de Animal. Lib. V. c. Ivi. Boch. Chan. Lib. 
J. c. v. p. 376, 377. Francofurti ad Mcenum, 1681. 
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