which Auretian being contented, fpared the City , and 
' leaving a fmali Garnilon, marcht for Rome with this Cap- 
- tive Lady : but the Inhabitants believing he would not 
return, fet up again for themfelves, and (as Vopifcus 
has it) flew the Garrilbn he had left in the Place. 
I Which Aurelian under (landing, though by this time he 
was gotten into Europe^ with his ufual fiercenefi, fpeediljr . 
returned ; and collecting a fufEcient Army by the way,^ 
he again took the City without any great Oppofition, 
and put it to the Sword, with an uncommon Cruelty, (as 
he himfelf .confefTes in a Letter extant in Fopifcus^ and 
delivered them to the Pillage of his Soldiers. And it is 
obftrvable, that none of the Greek Infcriptions are after 
the date of this Calamity, which befell the City in or 
about the Year of Chn§i x jx, as far as may be colleded, 
after it had been nine or ten years the Seat of the Empire 
of the Eaft, not without Glory. 
In this appears al(b the great utility of Coins to illu- 
ftrate Matters of Hiftory ; for by them alone 'tis made 
out, that there was fuch a Prince as WalallathiUi Vopifcus 
fingly mentioning him by the Name oiBallatus z And 
from the fame Coins it appears, that OJmathus had the 
Title of Augujlusiom Years, and Wahallathm fix at leafl ^ 
and that the Firft Year of Aurelian was the Fourth of 
Walallathui, And by the Tellimony of Tollio, Qd^- 
natbus was declared Emperor of the Eaft, GalUeno & 
Saturnino Cojjl which was Anno ChriHi 263., and died 
before Gallienus, but in the fame Year, v\z. Anno 
which, by theCpins, was the Firft oiWahalUthm He; 
therefore immediately fucceeded Odmathm, and waa^ 
without doubt his Eldefl Son by Zenoi^ia, and not hia 
Grandiibn the Son of Herodes^ as fome learned Mea: 
have fuppoftd: For If ^(?«(?^/^ could not endure that 
Herodes Sow oi Odmathus by a former Wife j iliould; 
