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Sivtnt's FUß) at Rome, had Interest enoughamong thc Pcople to f r upMaxentius for Empcror ; and Salmaßus aisurcs us, that it was rot Difcon-tinudtill the time of Heraclius. It will not therefore setm stränge, if Isuppole Aurelian might find that Custom at Talmjra, and at his Returnfrom thence Institute the like at Rome.

I am inclin’d to believe, that not only the 6, 7, and 10 Inferipticnsof Dr. Halifax , but also the 1 1, were in Honour of the fame SeptimiusForodes, who scems to have been a great Favorite of Odicnathus , and waswithout doubt Refpected by the Romans on that Account, whom 1 con-clude to have Eftaced all the /Memorials of Zenobia and Waballathus , inso-much that no One appeais, among those many taken, that was fec up duringthe 6 Tears they Reign’d. The Name Vorodes scems the Cme wiih Orodes,which was the Name of the King of the Rarthtans that S 1 w Crajjus : andthe Rerßans, having about 40 Tears betöre, exptll’d the Race of the Ar-Jacula, ’tis not Im probable but the hemains of that l oyal Family mightsty for Luccour to Palmpra, and this Vorodes might be one of them.n»i i«fiup 8 5 * Two other Copies of thefc Ffcriptions; the 8 th is Read,

*’ ' ' ■s.i’TTTifJiiov ’O icLiva.Sx, and not O/.swo-S-a, es in this Copy, and per-

haps ought rathet to be 'Ofsuvd.Sw, as being the lofcription under a Sta-tue of thc fäme Qdantttbus, who is here, as well as on his Tomb , styl’dIlb/ßnfßmus Patricias, but without a Dato.

H>1. Itscris. 6 - Tn ° IAPIBäAOt O€ 0 T. It cannot weil be Doubtcd, but that thiss.hr 14. Deus Jaribolus is the fame with what Gruter and Spon (in the firfi of hisJnfcription<) reads ArAlßaAiu. By the Figure of t\ c Idol extmt in Spn, itappears that this 60^ was made with thc Moon upon his Shouldeis, andconftquently was the Deus Lunus Worlhip'd by the Syrians , whosc Namein the Language of that Country, could not be bettet txpress’d than byJarchbol VyO PTP Dominus Lunus. Wher.ce I am induced to believe,that Gruter mistook it ArAIB«At> for ArAlB^At», the I in the Beginning,and the lower part of the Ruund stroke of the P, being Effaced, so as topafs for r.

By the way itis remarkable, that the Person, who Dedicatcd thh Monu-ment, in Gruter and Spon, is styl’d A. AtP. HAIOA&iPOC : and the lameName occurs in a Broken Infcription which Mr. Halifax omittcd, as beingtoo Imperfect. It stood on the Right Hand ot the Env ance into the littlcTemple, and was thut,

AOTKIOT ATPH[Al]OT.HAIOA«POT TOT

And astet a Blank of 3 Lines all worn out cxcept one fingle 0, therafollow’d,

Hai' lufcnp- 9.

[T€I>1HC XAPIN 6TOTC---- MHNOC [An]£AAAI[OT]

And that Imperfect $tb Jnscriptien scans to huve relation to the fäme

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