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This affords a fuffident confirmation of what I before 
oblerved, that thefe were Honorary Infcriptions in Me- 
mory of thofe that had behaved themfelves well in Pub- 
lick Offices of which we have feveral mentioned here, 
whereof (bme are very well known, but the others not 
eafie to be met with in Books. By the word MHTPO- 
KOAce)N6lAG we may be affured that though the City 
was reduced by the Romans into the form of a Colony, 
yet it had a peculiar mark of Honour fet upon it, to 
fignifie that it was the chief of their Colonies in thefe 
Oriental Parts. That the Authority alfo of their Se- 
nate and People was continued to theni. And befides, 
that there was a Society of Men, either Curators of 
the Temple of Jupiter Belus [to whom the Temple be- 
fore defcribed perhaps was dedicated,] orOverfeers ct 
the Sports and Feftivals that were celebrated in Honour 
t)f him ; of which Sodality this Septimius was , when 
this Infcription was made, a Sympofiarch, perhaps their 
Chief and Governour. By this too we find they did 
not wait for the Deaths of thofe they thus honoured , 
before they provided for the Prefervation of their Me- 
mories; but Famous Men were thusRegift/ed for Afcer- 
Ages even while they were alive. Upon one of theft? 
Pedeftals before defcribed, not far from the fprmer, was 
the following Infcription ; which I valued , tj(i^ more for 
the Uctie remainder it has prefervcd of the Name of Pal 
myra, by which the place was known to the Romahs. 
...TnlAlON OTOP^dAHN [CTNKAjHTlKON KAI 
BOTA6TTHN nAAMTPHNON BHAA KABOCAPCA 
TON $I[AON] T6IMHC XAPiN 6TOTC O^. • 
The upper end of this fpacious Piazza was ihut in by 
a row of Pillars, {landing fomewhat clofer than thole 
on each fide ; and perhaps there might have been a kind 
of Banquetting-Houfe above^ but now no certain foot* 
fteps 
The Ban- 
quetting- 
