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relim firft inftituted fuch a Guftbm of giving 

 Fledi at Rome : The Words of r'opifcus are. 

 Idem Aurelianus & porcinam carnem populo Ro-- 

 mano dijlribuit^ qua hodieque dividitur j which 



Cuftom continued till the time of Confiamin^^ 

 when (according to Zofimus) one Lucian^ 

 who had this Office of diftributing Swines 

 Flefli at Rome^ had Intereft enough among 

 the People to fet up Maxentius iox Emperor ; 

 and Salmajius affures us, that it was not dif- 

 continued till the time of HeracUus. It will 

 mot therefore feem ftrange, if I fuppofe Au^ 

 relian might find that Cuftom at Palmyra^ and 

 at his return from thence inftitute the like at 

 Rome. 



I am enclined to believe, that not only 

 thofe two Infcriptions, Pa^. 102, and the ^ 

 laft of Pag' 103, but alfo that of Pag. 106 ^ 

 were in Honour of the fame Septimius f^orodes 

 who feems to have been a great Favourite of 

 Od(znathus^ and was without doubt refpefted 

 by the Romans on that account, whom I con- 

 clude to have effaced all the Memorials of 

 Zenobia and Waballathus^ infomuch that no 

 one appears, among thofe many taken, that 

 was fet up during the fix Years they reigned. 

 The Name Forodes feems the fame with 

 Orodcs^ which was the Name of the King of 

 . the Parthians that flew Crajfus : and the Per- 

 fians having, about forty Years before, expel- 

 led the Race of the Ar[acid<&^ 'tis not im- 

 probable but the Remains of that Royal 

 Family might fly for Succour to Palmyra^ 

 and this For odes might be one of them. 



5. In two other Copies of thefe Infcripti- 

 onsi the flrft of pag. 104. is read, Ss:fT;>/:y 



