1 7 2 MifcelUnea Curiofa, Vol. III. 



the Criticks, whether this faulty Place may 

 not be amended by reading itOTK oiK^icyM 

 a^^£IahCanta^ Cfrc. as likewife whether 

 AiCMAAKOT in the fame Infcription may not 

 be inftead of maaaot tot maakot^ which is 

 the Ingenious Conjefture of that excellent 

 Grammarian Mr. William Baxter. 



4. Pag, 102. Septimium F'orodem Procurator 

 rem Ducenarivm Augufit & APOATT^THN. This 

 Word, if Greeks is faultily tranfcribed and 

 in one Copy I have feen, the O is very fmall, 

 as I fuppofe it on the Stone, which might 

 occafion the tranfcribing thereof without it 

 in the former Voyage (Pag. t3o,) So that 

 'tis moft probable that 'tis the remains of 

 fome other Letter almoft worn out. I con^ 

 jefture it to have been aptafethk, n being 

 taken for r, and that this Sefttmius was Pr^e- 

 feBus Anno77di^ having the Care to fee that 

 the City were fufficiently provided with 

 Bread which was a moft neceffary Officer 

 in a Place that muft needs be furnifh'd with 

 Corn from Abroad. And this fame Septimi^ 

 ns^ (in the Infcription, P^g* ^05.) is ftiled 



" • . . • £OAOTHN T H C MHTPOKGA^jN£IAC« 



lege KPGOAOTHN, which lliould figuifie that 

 he was the Diftributor of the Emperor's Mu- 

 nificence in Flefh to the People. Thefe In- 

 fcriptions bear Date in April^ Anm Dom. 267^ 

 not long before the Death of Odanathus^ who 

 is herein ftiled C£baCToC: and 'tis not im- 

 probable but he might inftitute fuch a Cu- 

 ft:om, as at the Publick Charge, to give the 

 People a Largefs in Flefli on particular Days, 

 . to reconcile them to the Dominion of th- ir 

 Fellow-Citizen. This is certain, that 'Au-'^ 



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