i66 MifcefUma Curiofa, Vol. Ill, 



P] ace* Which Jlurelian underftanding, tho^ 

 by this time he was gotten into Evrofe^ with 

 his ufiial fiercgnefs, fpeedily returned ^ and 

 coUefting a fufficient Army by the way, he 

 again took the City without any great Op*? 

 polition. and put it to the Sword, with an 

 uncommon Cruelty, as he himfelf ponfefles 

 in a Letter extant in V'ofifcus^ and deliver-? 

 ed them to the Pillage of his Soldiers. And 

 it is obfervable, that none of the Greek In- 

 fcriptions are after the date of this Calamity, 

 which befel the City in or about the Year 

 of Chrifi 272, as far as may be colleded, af-r 

 ter ?t had been nine or ten Years the Seat of 

 the Empire of the Eaft, not withotit GI0-? 



ry. 



In this appears alfo the great utility of 

 Coins to illuftrate Matters of Hiftory for I 

 by them alone 'tis made out, that there was ^ 

 fuch a Prince as Waballathm^ P^opifcus fingly 

 mentioning him by the Name of Balhatus : 

 And from the fame Coins it appears, that 

 Odc^nathtts had the Title of Auguftus four 

 Years, ^n^ Wahaliathns iix at leaft and that 

 the firll: Year of Aurelian was the fourth of 

 WahalUthvs. And by the Teftimony of Pol- 

 lio^ Odmathus was declared Emperor of the 

 Eaft, Gallieno ^: Satnrnino Ccjf, v^hich An-^ 

 m Christ 263, and died before GalUenus^ but 

 in the fame Year, Anno 16-]^ which, by 

 the Coins, was the ^\xi^ WakalUthus. He 

 therefore immediately fncceeded Odanathux^ j 

 and was without doubt his Eldeft Son by Ze-^ 

 pohla^ and not his Grandfon the Son of He-- 

 rodcs^ as fome learned Men have fuppofed t 

 For if Zemhm c6itld not endure that FIsrodes 



