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who received her with a ftern countenance, and queftioned 

 her how (he could dare to refill the emperors of Rome. 

 She replied, " Bccaufe I could not acknowledge as fuch a 

 Gallienus and others like him ; but I recognize by that 

 title you who know how to conquer." At Emefa, tne 

 fate of Zenobia was fnbmitted to the judgment of a tri- 

 bunal, at which Aurelian prefided ; and the Roman foldiers 

 demanded her death. She, in a manner unworthy of her 

 former fame, faved her own life by throwing the blame of 

 her refiltance on her miniftcrs and counfellors ; I.ongmus 

 wa-i one of thefe, who, with feveral others, was put to 

 death, in the year 273. 



Zenobia was referved to grace the triumph of Aurehan ; 

 and on the appointed day (he preceded, on foot, a magni- 

 ficent chariot, which (he had defigned in the days of her 

 profperity for a very different kind of entry into Rome. 

 She was encircled, it is faid, with chains of gold, and almoft 

 funk under the load of jewels with which flie was adorned. 

 Afterward (he was treated with humanity by the viftor ; 

 and had afligned to her an agreeable refidence near the Tiber, 

 where (he paffed the remainder of her days as a Roman 

 matron. Whether (lie contracted a fecond marriage with 

 a Roman fenator, as fome have affirmed, is uncertain ; but 

 however this be, her furviving fon Vhaballat withdrew into 

 Armenia, and pofrclTcd a fmall principality granted to him 

 by the emperor, and her family was not extinft in the litlh 

 century^ Gibbon's Hid. of Rome, vol. ii. 



Zenobia, Zelebi, in /Indent Geography, a town of Afia, 

 in the Euphratenfis, upon the banks of the Euphrates, 

 five miles from fort Mambri, and on this fide of the fmall 

 town of Sura. According to Procopius, it was founded 

 by Zenobia, wife of Odonatus, prince of Palmyra. After 

 it had been ruined, Juftinian re-ellabli(hed it, and re-peopled 

 it, and made it one of the bulwarks of the empire. After 

 having rebuilt the town and fortified it, he embellifhed it, 

 conflrufting magnificent churches, public baths, galleries, 

 and lodgments for the foldiers. It was fituated S.E. of 

 Nicephorium. 



Zenobia, a place of Italy, near the palace of Adrian, 

 affigned to queen Zenobia for her refidence. 



ZENOBII Insula, the name of feven iflands in the 

 Indian ocean, upon the coaft of Arabia Felix, at the entrance 

 of the Sathahte gulf. Ptolemy. 



ZENODOTIUM, a town of Afia, in Ofrhoene, in the 

 vicinity of Nicephorium, according to Appian. Steph. 

 Byz. This towr fays Plutarch, was forcibly taken by 

 Craffus, who ruin, ' it, and fold the inhabitants by auftion. 



ZENOMIS Chersonesus, a town mentioned only by 

 Ptolemy, :i'id placed by him in the Tauric Cherfonefus, along 

 the weftern coaft of the Palus Mceotis. M. Peyfonnel 

 thinks this was not a town, but an ifthmus, called at prefent 

 Zenifl<6. 



ZENSON, in Geography, a town of Italy, in the Tre- 

 vifan ; 9 miles E.N.E. of Trevigio. 



ZENSUS, in ArUhmetic, a name which fome authors 

 give to a fquare number, or the fecond power. 



The higher powers they call zenjizenjus, aenzicuitii, zen- 

 Jtzenzenftis, zcnfurdefoUdus, &c. See Power. 



ZENTA, in Geography, a town of Hungary, on the 

 river They 3 ; memorable far a Cgnal viftory obtained, in 

 the year 1697, by prince Eugene, over the Turks, com- 

 manded by the errperor Mnftapha II. in perfon : 20,000 

 Turks were kiikd, 10,000 wounded, and 3000 taken pri- 

 fonera ; 54 miles N. of Belgrade. 



Zenta, a dillrift of Dalmatia, on the confines of 

 Albania. ] 2 



Z E O 



ZENTILMANDAIK, a town of Afiatic Turkey, iiS 

 Natolia ; 8 miles N. of Eregri. 



ZENUPH, in the Jeiu'tjli Antiquities.) a kind of tiara 

 worn by the kings of Judah. See Cidaris. 



ZEOBID, in Geography, a town of the Arabian Irak, 

 on the Euphrates ; 28 miles S. of Bagdad. 



ZEOLITE, in Mineralogy, a mineral fo named by Croa- 

 ftedt, from the Greek word f ei', to foam, on account of its in- 

 tnmefcing and foaming very much before the blow-pipe. Haiiy 

 makes two dillindl fpecies of the zeolite, which he denominates 

 mefotype and (lilbite, Werner makes four fub-fpecies of 

 zeolite, which he calls mealy zeolite, fibrous zeohte, radiated 

 zeolite, and foliated zeolite. Befides this he makes zeolite 

 a generic name, placing it at the head of what he calls the 

 zeolite family, in which arrangement he is followed by pro- 

 fefTor Jamefon, who clafFes with the zeolite family the fol- 

 lowing minerals: prenhite, (fee Prenhite, ) zeolite, apo- 

 phylite, cubicite, called by Haiiy analcime, chabafite, crofs- 

 ftone, laumonite, dipyre, natrolite, and wavellite. (See 

 Wavellite. ) In the clafiification of fpecimens at the 

 Britidi Mufeum, thefe minerals, fo nearly allied in chemical 

 compofition, and in many of their external charafters, are 

 arranged together under the appropriate denomination of 

 zeolitic fubllances, by which the confufion incident on 

 making the fame word reprefent both a genus and 

 fpecies is avoided. Thefe fubllances, except wavellite, are 

 conipofed of filex, alumine, lime, or an alkali, and a con- 

 fiderable portion of water. To the latter, they owe the 

 property of intumefcing before the blow-pipe, that many of 

 them poflefs. Some of thefe minerals form a jelly when dif- 

 folved in acids. Zeolitic minerals occur principally in the 

 cavities of volcanic and bafaltic rocks. Of the different 

 members of the zeolite family, prenhite has been already 

 defcribed. (See Prenhite.) Zeolite, comprifing mealy 

 zeolite and fibrous and radiated zeolite, are the various 

 mefotypes of Haiiy, mealy zeolite being the mefotype altcree 

 afpeB terreiix of the French mineralogift. This mineral 

 is white, inchning to yellowifh, greyiih, or reddiih, and is 

 fometimes red. It occurs maffive, and kidney-fhaped, and 

 corroUoidal. Sometimes it forms a cruft over other zeo- 

 lites. The lullre is dull or feebly glimmering : it is 

 opaque, very foft, and rather feftile ; it has an earthy 

 frafture, fometimes inclining to fibrous. It is very light, 

 and eafily frangible, and feels rough and meagre. It ap- 

 pears to be zeolite in a decompofing (late. It intumefces 

 before the blow-pipe, and forms a jelly with acids. The 

 conftituent parts are, 



•felex - ... 60 



Alumine - . - - 15.6 

 Lime .... 8 



Oxydofiron - - . 1.8 



Lofs by expofure to heat . 11. 6 



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Fibrous Zeolite, Mefotype, Haiiy, is of a fno'.v-whitc 

 colour, pafTing to greyiih, yellowilh, or reddifh-whue, and 

 fometimes into red and yellowi(h-grey, yeIlowi(h-brown, or 

 ochre-yellow. It occurs maffive, in kidney-fiiaped balls, 

 and in capillary cryftals. The external furface of the kid- 

 ney-fhaped varieties is rough and dull ; internally it is 

 flrongly glimmering, paffing into gliftening, and the luftre 

 is pearly : it is faintly tranflucent. The ftrufture of this 

 mineral is fibrous, eitlicr diverging on one fide or ftellulai", 

 and pafTes from delicately fibrous to coarfe or to narrow 

 radiated. It is brittle, breaking into fplintery or wedgc- 



fhaped 



