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with great Respect ; and raentioning his Deatb, he says, Iratum suisseDeum Reip. credo , qui mterfeäo Valeriano noluit Odenatum reservare. Batby a stränge Reverse of Fortune, this Honour and Respect to Odanathusdccasiorsd the Sudden Ruin and Subversion ot the City. For He and hisSon Herodes being Murder’d by Maonius, their Kinsman, and Dying withthe Title of Augußus, his Wife Zenobia, in Right ot her Son Waballathusthen a Minor , Pretended to taste upoa her the Government of the Fast,and did Administer it to Admiration: and when soon after Gallienus wasMurder’d by his Soldiers, (he Grasp’d the Government of csEgypt, and Heldit during the short Reign ofthe Emperor Claudius Gothicus. Bat Aureliancoming to the Imperial Dignity, would not suffer the Title of Augustus inthis Family, though he was Contentcd that they should hold ander himas Viet Casaris, as plainly appears by the Latin Cotns of Aurelian on theOneside, and Waballathus (which Name is often found in thesc Infcrtptions)on the Other, with these Lstrers, V. C. R. I M. O R; which P . Harduinhas most judiciously lnterprcted, Vsce Cafarü Rellor Imperii Orientis, butwithout the Title of Cafar, or Augußus , and with a Lawrel instead of aDiadem. But both Waballathus and Zenobia, are Styl’d CEBACTOI jn theGreek Coins, made ’tis probable, within their own Jurisdiction. Twoof the Latin I have seen, and they are as Describ’d, excepting thePoints.

But nothingleß thun a Tarticipation of the Empire Content!ng Ztnobta,and Aurelian persisting not to have it Dismember’d : he March’d againsther, and having in two Battels Routed her Forces, he (hüt her tip, and be-siegst! her in P almyra : and the Besieg'd finding that the great Resistance theymade, avail’d not against that Resolute Emperor, they Pielded the Town ;and Zenobia Flying with her Son, was pursu’d and tasten, With whichAurelian being Contented, Spar’d the City, and leaving a Ssnall Garrison,Marcht for Rome with this CapWve Lady: but the Inhabitants believing hewould not Return, Set up again for themselves, and (as Vopiscus has it)Slew the Garrison he had lese in the Place. Which Aurelian understand-ing, though by this time he was gotren int o Europe, with his usual Ficrce-nesi, speedtly Return’d ; and Coi lecti ng a sufficient Army by the way,he again took the City without any great Opposition, and put it to theSword, with an Unccmmon Cruelty, ' as he himselt confeffes in a Letterextant in Vopiscus,) and deliver’d them to the Pillage of his Soldiers. And’tis obscrvable that none of the Greek Infcrtptions are after the Date of thisCalamity, which betest the City in or about the Tcar of Christ zyi, asfar as may beCollccted, after it had been 9 or 1 oTears the Seat of theEmpire of the East, not without Glory.

In this appears also the Great Utility of Coins ro Illustrate Mattersof Hißery, for by them alonc ’tis made out, that there was such a Princeas IVaballathus, Vopiscus singly mentioning him by the Name of Balbatus.And. from the fame Coins it appeats that O danatbus had the Title of Au-gustus äfTcars, and WabaUatkus 6 at käst ; and that the First Tear of Au-relian was the \th of WabaJlatbus. And by theTestimony of Pdho, Ode-

nathus