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nathus was Dcclar'd Empiror of thcEaß, Galliern & Saturnino Coff. whichwas An. Chrißi 26 3, and Dy’d betöre Gallnnus , but in thc fame Year,viz,. An. 267, wbich, by the Coins, was the Firfi of W>- ballat hu s. Hetherefore immcdiately Succceded Odanatbus , and was without doubt bisEldest Son by Ztnobia, and not bis Grandson, the Son of Herodes , as someLfarned Men have snppos’d : For if Zenobia could not endure that Herodes,

Son of Od.cnatbus by a Former Wife, fliould Succeed bis Father in Preju-dice to her Children, and for that reason was Conscnting to bis Murther(as Pollio Intimares in Herodes and Maenius) much less would die endurethe Title of Anguß us in the Son of Herodes , and especially when her ownSons werc, as ’tis probable, Elder than such Grandson. 8 > that ’iis mostlikely that Herennianus and Timolaus , whom Polli) rcckons among bisXXXTyrtfwfr, might be thc Younger Sons of Zenobia, on whom also outof Motherly Astethon, die might bestow the limeTitles of Honour.

But it must Observ’d, that in the Greek Coins , this Prince's Name is ufual-ly written ATT 6PMIAC OrABAAAA0OC AOHNOy as T?iflan says, he foundit upon (tveral Medals : but Patin has the Last Word only A©H. I diouldbeglad to Perusesomeof thesccurious Coins, especially if found in or nearPalmyra ; but I am inclinable to believe that his True Name was c Alranes Wa -ballatbus ( as was one of his Progcnitors,in the Firfi Infcription of D r.Halifax) Vld ' Su fthough perhaps the Remoter Cities, of Afia and fonia, might by miltakewrite it Hermias. And ’tis probable that A0HN. might be for the FirstLetters of the Name üaHNAGOC, which in Sjriac begun with an Aleph ;and thc A was with those People us’d instead of 0, as we soe the MonthXanthicus , written za.vS'noit in many of theß Injcriptions , which doubtlesiwas Pronounced like D.blafum, or the Sax n ©

Though this City were at that timc so roughly treated by Aureltan, yetit is certain that he did not Burn it, or Destroy the Buildings thereof:

And though Zcfimus on this occafion uses the Words TW nU/r Karax/Afas,yet that leems only to relate to his Demolifhing the Walls and Defences ofthe place ; and that Emperor’s own Letter extant in Vopiscus , dcth fuffici-ently diew that he Spar’d the City it seif -, and that he took care to re-in-state the Beautiful Temfk of the Sun that was there, which had been Plun-der’d by his Soldiers. However the Damage then sostain’d was never Re»triev’d by the Inhabirants, and I do not find that ever this City made anyFigure in Hißory after it: yet the Latin Infcription , (eems to intimate, as n Supif Diocleßan had R'estor’d their Walls within 30 Tears after. About theYear of Chiifi 400, it was the Head-Quarters of the Legio Prima Illyrico-rum ; and though Stepbanus gives it no bester Title than $piaov, yet it ap-peavs to havebeen an Ärch bißiop's See , under the Metropolitan of Damas-cus. To say in what Age, or from what Hand, it receiv’d its Final Over-throw, which Reduc’d it to the Miserable Condition it now appears in,thtre is no Light in any of our Hffiorians , but it is probable, it Peristitsorg fince in thc Obscure Ages of the World, during the Wars of the Sa-racen Empire ; andbeingBurnt amdDesolated, it was never Rebuilt, whichoccasions the Ruins to lie so Emire, in a mannet as they were lest, nei-Vol. 111. X x x ther