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ftme in many places fpeaks of this OJanathus with 
great Refpeft j and mentioning his Death, he fays, 
Iratum fmjfe Deum Reip. credo^ qui interfeilo Vakriano 
noluit Odenatum refervare. But by a ftrange reverfe of 
Fortune, this Honour and Refped: to OJcenathia occa- 
fioned the fudden Ruine and Subverfion of the City. 
For he and his vSon Herodes being murder'd by Mceonius 
their Kinfman, and dying with the Title of Auguftus^ 
his Wife Zenohia, in Right of her Son Waballathus 
then a Minor, pretended to take upon her the Govern- 
ment of the EaB^ and did admimfter it to admiration : 
And when foon after Gallknus was murder'd by his Sol- 
diers, Ihe grafped the Government of Egyf ty and held 
it during the Ihort Reign of the Emperor Claudius Go- 
thicus. But Aurelian coming to the Imperial Dignity, 
would not fuffer the Title of Augufius in this Family, tho' 
he was contented that they Ihould hold under him 
Vice Casfaris ; as plainly appears by the Latin Coins of 
Aurelian on the one fide,and Waballathus (which Name is 
often found in thefe Infcriptions) on the other, with thefe 
Letters V. C. R.IM. OR, which P. Harduin has moft 
judicioufly interpreted Vice Ccefaris ReSlor Imperii Ori- 
entiSy but without the Title of Cafar or AuguJluSy and 
with a Lawrel in{\Gad of a Diadem. But both Walal- 
lathus and Zenohia are (tiled C6BACTOI in the Greek 
Coins, made, 'tis probable, within their own Jurifdiftion. 
Two of the Latine I have feen, arid they are as de- 
fcribed, excepting the Points. 
But nothing lefs than a Participation of the Empire 
contenting Zenohia^ and Aurelian perfifting not to have 
it difmembred : he marched againft her, and having in 
two Battels routed her Forces, he (hut her up and be- 
/ieged her in Palmyra: And the Befieged finding that 
the gr^at refiftance they made, availed not againft that 
refolute Emperor, they yielded the Town ; and Zenoiia^ 
flying with her Son, was purfued and taken ; With 
which 
