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itself to sundry scholars including M. Clerc1, H. Lewy2, M. Mayer3, O. Hofer4,
W. Prellwitz5, and in a modified form to S. Reinach6. But Miss Harrison in-

have come to Hebrew & Aramaic as a loanword from Assyrian, where the form is Malaku.'
The last statement is further guaranteed by the Rev. C. H. W. Johns (April n, 1917)],
qu'enfin Silius Italicus (in, 104 [103 ff. lascivogenitus Satyronymphaque Myrice | Milichus
indigenis late regnarat in oris | cornigeram attollens genitoris imagine frontem]) cite Mili-
chus comme un dieu punique {Mhnoires de P Acadimie des Inscriptions, t. 23, p. 267).
L'orthographe constante [?] des bas-reliefs du Piree vient confirmer cette opinion.'
F. C. Movers Die Phb'nizier Berlin 1841 i. 326 f. had already connected the words
MetXixtos, Milichus, and Melech.

1 M. Clerc Les me'teques athe'niens {Bibliotheque des ecoles francaises cP Athenes et de
Rome lxiv) Paris 1893 p. 127 ff.

2 H. Lewy Die semitischen Fremdw'drler im Griechischen Berlin 1895 p. 242 f.

3 M. Mayer in Roscher Lex. Myth. ii. 152 1.

4 O. Hofer in Roscher Lex. Myth. ii. 2561 : but cp. ib. p. 2562.

5 Prellwitz Etym. Worterb. d. Gr. Spr.2 p. 286.

6 S. Reinach Chroniques d''Orient Paris 1891 p. 683 holds that in Zeus MeiXt'xios we
may see the fusion of an original Greek with an incoming oriental god : 'une forme grec-
que et une forme orientale, distinctes a l'origine, ont ete confondues par le meme syncretisme
qui a assimile Herakles a l'Hercule latin.' Similarly in the Rev. Et. Gr. 1906 xix. 348