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pears, that there muft have been forne intermediate 
princes between the elder Dionyflus and Gelo, kings 
of Syracufe, whofe names do not occur in any 
antient writer. We may therefore, as I apprehend, 
fafely enough place queen Philiflis in the interval 
between Dionyflus I. and Gelo, kings of Syracufe, 
and even fotnewhere near the earlier of thofe princes, 
as her filver medals fo much refemble Gelo’s filver 
coins. If therefore it fhould be fuppofed probable, 
that the pieces of Gozo, adorned with Phoenician 
letters, were ftruck in that iiland, about 450 years 
before the commencement of the Chriftian aera ; 
the learned would not, I flatter myfelf, refufe their 
afient to fuch a fuppofition. 
V. 
When the Carthaginians firfl: poflefled themfelves 
of Malta and Gozo, as fufficient light has not been 
afforded us by any antient writer in this matter, I can- 
not take upon me pofitiveiy to fay; but that they were 
fettled there before the days of Scylax of Caryanda, 
who, according to the very learned Mr. Dodwell, was 
cotemporary with Polybius, we learn from that cele- 
brated (20) author. We are informed moreover by 
<c fubje£ts, and fucceeded by a greater tyrant ; after whom you 
ct mounted the throne. As therefore your government is more 
* c intolerable than that of either of your wicked predecefTors, I 
“ am afraid your fucceflor will be {fill worfe than you are, and 
“ therefore I pray daily to the gods for your health and prefer- 
“ vation.” Hence it feems probable, that the interval between 
the expulfion of Thrafybulus, and the beginning of Dionyfius’s 
reign, about 60 years, was filled up by the reigns of the two 
namelefs tyrants here mentioned, and of fome others who have 
been parted over in filence by the hiftorians of Syracufe. Valer. 
Maxim. & Prin. de Torremuzza, ubi fup. 
(20) Scyl. Caryand. in Peripl. Mar . Me Alter, p. 50. Ed. 
Oxon. 1698. 
(21) Thu- 
