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year of Aurelian was the 4th of Waballathus. And, by the testimony of Pollio, 

 OdiEiiathus was declared emperor of the East, Gallieno et Saturriino Coss. 

 which was Anno Christi 263, and died before GalHenus, but in the same year, 

 viz. Anno 267, which, by the coins, was the first of Waballathus. He there- 

 fore immediately succeeded Odaeiiathus, and was doubtless his sldest son by 

 Zenobia, and not his grandson, the son of Herodes, as some learned men have 

 supposed ; for if Zenobia could not bear that Herodes, son of Odgenathus by a 

 former wife, should succeed his father, in prejudice of her children, and for 

 that reason was consenting to his murder, as Pollio intimates in Herodes and 

 Maeonius, much less would she suffer the title of Augustus in the son of 

 Herodes, especially when her own sons were probably older than such grandson. 

 So that it is most likely that Herennianus and Timolaus, whom Pollio reckons 

 among his 30 tyrants, might be the younger sons of Zenobia, on whom also, 

 out of motherly affection, she might bestow the same titles of honour. 



But it must be observed, that in the Greek coins that prince's name is usually 

 written ATT. 6PMIAC OTABAAAA0OC. A0HNOT, as Tristan says he found it 

 on several medals, but Patin has the last word only A0H. But I am inclined to 

 believe that his true name was Cranes Waballathus, though perhaps the 

 remoter cities of Asia and Ionia might, by mistake, write it Hermias. And it 

 is probable that A0HN might be for the first letters of OAHNA0OC, which in 

 Syriac began with an aleph ; and the A they used instead of ©, as we see the 

 month Zanthicus, written HanJixo; in many of the inscriptions, which. doubtless 

 was pronounced like D blsesum, or the Saxon D. 



Though this city was then so roughly treated by Aurelian, yet it is certain 

 that he did not burn it or destroy the buildings; and though Zosimus, on this 

 occasion, uses the words r-w -n-oXtv xaTxirxx^ix^, yet that seems only to relate to 

 his demolishing the walls and defences of the place ; and that emperor's own 

 letter, extant in Vopiscus, sufficiently shows that he spared the city itself, and 

 that he took care to reinstate the beautiful temple of the sun that was there, 

 which had been plundered by his soldiers. However the damage then sustained 

 was never retrieved by the inhabitants, and I do not find that ever this city made 

 any figuf-e in history afterwards. About the year of Christ 400, it was the 

 head-quarters of the legio prima Illyricorum ; and though Stephanus gives it no 

 better title than (p^i^iov, yet it appears to have been an archbishop's see, under 

 the metropolitan of Damascus. To say in what age, or from what hand it 

 received its final overthrow, which reduced it to the miserable condition it now 

 appears in, there is no light in history ; but probably it perished long since, in 

 the obscure ages of the world, during the wars of the Saracens ; and being 

 burnt and desolated it was never rebuilt, which occasions the ruins to lie so 



