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forces, he /hut her up, and bcfieged her in Talmyra-^ and the 
bedeged, finding that the refiftance they made availed not 
againll that refolute emperor, furrendred rhe town 5 and Zeno- 
hiay flying with her fon, was purlued and taken 5 with which 
Aurelian being farisfied, fpared the city, and leaving a I'mall 
garrifon, he marched to Bjome with this captive lady j but the 
inhabitants, believing that he would not return, fet up again 
for themfclves, and, according to VopifcuSy they flew the gar- 
rifon 5 which Aurelian underftanding, tho' by this time he had 
got into Europe^ yet he fpeedily returned with his ufual fierce- 
nefs, and collefling a fufficient army by the way, he again 
took the city without any great oppofition, and put them to the 
fword with an uncommon cruelty, and delivered them to the 
pillage of his foldiers. And it is obfervable, that none of the 
Greek infcriptions are pofterior to the date of this calamity, 
which befel the city in, or about the year of Chrift 272, after 
it had been 9 or 10 years, not without glory, the feat of the 
empire of the eaft. 
In this appears the great ufefulnefs of coins to illuflrate hifto- 
rical fads 5 for by them alone it is made out, that there was 
fuch a prince as WaballathuSy called Salbatus by Vopifcus j and 
from the fame coins it appears, that Odcenatbus had the title 
o^ Auguftus for four years, and Wahallathus for at leaft fix 5 
and that the firft year of Aiirelian was the fourth o^ U'aballa- 
thus 'j and by the teftimony oi'PolUo^ Odeenathus was declared 
emperor of the eaft, Gallieno ^ Saturnino Cofs. which was 
Anno Chrifti 16^^ and died before Gallienus, Anno 16'j, which, 
by the coins, was the firll o{ Wahallathus -^ he therefore imme- 
diately fucceeded Odcenatbus^ and was doubtlefs his eldeft fon 
by Zenobia, and not his grandfon, the fon of Herodes^ as fome 
learned men have fuppofed^ for \{ Zenobia could not bear that 
HerodeSi Ion of Odcenatbus by a former wife, fliould fucceed 
his father, in prejudice of her children, and for that reafon was 
confcnting to his murder, as 'Tollio intimates in Herodes and 
MceonluSy much lefs would (he fuffer the title of Auguftus in 
the fon of Herodes^ and efpecially, when her own Ions were 
elder than fuch grandfon 3 fo that it is moft probable, that 
Herennianus and Timolaus^ whom Pollio reckons amongft the 
thirty tyrants, might be the younger fons o( Zenobia, on whom 
alfo, oat of motherly affedion, flic might beftow the fame 
titles of honour. 
But it muft be obferved, that in the Greek coins this prince's 
name is ufually written ATT. EPMIA^ OTABAAAA0OC 
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