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this City continued to flourifh and encreafe 

 in Wealth and Power, to that degree, that 

 when the Emperor V'alerim was taken Pri- 

 foner by 5^/?(?re/ King of Perfia^ Od^nathtis one 

 of the Lords of this Town (which Name 

 occurs in feveral of thefe Infcriptions) was 

 able (\Nhi\ttGa!lier2i^ neglefted his Duty both 

 to his Father and Country) to bring a pow- 

 erful Army into the Field, and to recover 

 Adefopotamia from the Perfianf^ and to pene- 

 trate as far as their Capital City Ctejifkon. 

 Thereby rendring fo conliderable Service to 

 the Roman State , that GalUenm thought 

 himfelf obliged to give him a ftiare in 

 the Empire: Of which Adion, Trebellim Pol- 

 Uo (in the Life of GalUenm) has thefe Words^ 

 Lavdatur ejus (G allien i) optimum faH^um^ qui^ 

 Odenati/m partictpato Imperio Augufivm voca^ 

 vit^ ejufque monetam^ qua Perfas captos traheret^ 

 cudi jifjfit : quod & SenatHS & Vrhs & omnis 

 £tas gratanter accepit. The fame in ma- 

 ny Places fpeaks of this Od^znathm with great 

 Refpeft ; and m.entioning his Death , he 

 fays, Jratum fuijfe Deum Keip. credo^ qui inter'^ 

 feho Valeriano noluit Odenatum refervare. But 

 by a Arrange reverfe of Fortune, this Ho- 

 nour and Refpeci to Od^nathm occafioned the 

 iudden Ruin and Subverfion of the City. For' 

 he and his Son Herodes being murder'd by 

 M'-tonim their Kinfman, and dying with the 

 Title of Auguftns^ his NA^ife Zenchia^m Right 

 of her Son IVahallathm then a Minor, pre- 

 tended to take upon her the Government of 

 the Eaft, and did adminifter it to admira- 

 tion : And when foon after GalUenm was 

 ji^iUrder'd by his Soldiers, Ihe grafped the 



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