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tcrwards Augußus. That Name growing in Use in rhe Reign of Septimus St~verus, under whom, or his Son Caracalla , this Odcenathus was certainlyBorn. And this Monument being Erccted by him whilst hc was yet a Pri-vate Man; and he afterwards attaining the Imperial Dignitj , it was ne-cessary the Inscription of bis (which perhaps was that Single one thatwas all of Marble ) fhould bechang’d: Upon which occasion this Stonemightbe broughtback into the Town, and after its Destruction, be claptup casually cver the Little Gate-way where now it stands.

2 . KAT 6 A 0 ONTEC £IC OAOr€ClAAA 6NPIOPOIAN 6CTHCAN: DesaneLn* sfa!. l.,(c. + .rer Vologesiada Commercium ßabilivcrunt, An. 558. flve An- Christi 247.

Whercby it appears, thut this People having had their Trade interruptedby the Wars between the Romans and the Perßans, under Gordtan, didnow send an Embassy to the Court of Sapores, King of the Perßans,to get it Re*establi(h’«l, which sücceeded aecording to their Desires. Vo-logeßas was a City built by Vologefes , King of the Partbians in the Timeot Nero, on the Euphrates below Babylon Ptolemp calls it ^öoKynnd .;; Sie-phanus, BoKoyieids Ammianus, Vologeilia; and Pliny Vologdö- hb. 6 .cirta.

3 . KAI OTKONICuNA $€IAHCANTA XPHMAT«N. I submtt it to the N,I. r»[<,i P . /.Judgment of the Criticks, whether this Faulty place may not be amended,

by Reading it OTK OIK6I«N A^C-IahCanTä, &c. as likewde whetherAICMAAXOT in the ferne Inscription may not be instead of MAAXOr TorMAAKOt, which is the Ingenious Conjecture of that excellent GrammarianMr. WiU . Baxter.

4 . Septimium Vorodtm Prtcuratorem Ducenarium Augusii, &c. APOA Hj , t , yi

sI6TKN. This Word if Gretk, is faultily Transcrib’d j and inoneCopyl f

have scen, the O is very small, as I kuppele it on the Stone -, which might

occasion the Transcribing thereof without it in the Former Voyage: So that Self - XL -it is most probable, that it is the Romains of some other Letter almolt ' " "' l ' *"Worn out. I conjecture it to have Been APTATETHN, n being taken for r,and that this Septimius was Prafettus Annonce, having the Care to see thatthe City were lufficiently provided with Bread ; which was a most necessa-ry Officcr in a Place that must needs be furnilh’d with Corn from Abroad. 10.

And this fame Septimius, in another Inscription is Styl’d ..... 60A0THNTHC MHTPOKOA 61 N 6 IAC lege KP60A0THN , which stiould signify that hewas Distributor of the Emperor’s Munificcnce in Flesh to the People. TheseInscriptions bear Date in April An. Dom. 167. not long before the Deathof Odccnathus , who is herein styl’d CgBACTOC : and ’tis not improbable buthe might Institute stich a Custom, as at the Publick Charge to give thePeople a Large ls in Fleß) on particular Days, to reconcile them to the Do-minion of their Fellow Citizen. This is certain, that Aurelsan first Insti-tuted such a Custom of giving Flesh at Rome : The Words of Vopiscus are,

Idem Aurelianus & Porcinam Carnem Populo Romano difiributt, quee ho -dieque dividitur ; which Custom continu’d till the time of Lonflantme, when(aecording to Zofimus) one Lucian , who had this Office of Distributing

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