C ) 
?. That the more ancient of thefe Infcriptions dated 
before the Year 5'oo, do no where make nkoi Roman 
Pranomina, which yet are very frequent in them that 
follow particularly Julius^ Aurelius and Septimius^ 
taken up by thefe People out of Refped to the Empe- 
rors that bore thofe Names ; and confequently that Sep- 
timtus Odmathm (the Infcription of whofe Tomb we 
have,/>^jg. 88.) was mod probably the fame who was 
afterwards Augnflus, That Name growing in u(e in the 
Reign of Septmms SeveruSy under whom or his Son Ca^ 
racalla this OJ^enathus was certainly born. And this 
Monument being ereded by him whilft he was yet 
a private Man ; and he afterwards attaining the Imperial 
Dignity, it was neceflary the Infcription of his Tomb 
(whidh perhaps was that fingle one that was all of 
Marble) fliould be changed : upon which occafion this 
Stone might be brought back into the Town, and after 
its Deftrucaion, be claptup cafually over the little Gate- 
way where now it ftands. 
X. Pag. 95-. KATGA0ONTEC GIC OAOrgClAAA 
gNnOPQiAN 6CTHGAN ; Defcendentes Fologefiada 
Commerciumflahiliverunt^Anno five Anno Chrifti x^y. 
Whereby it appears, that this People having had their 
Trade interrupted by the Wars between the Romans and 
\ihQPerfiaHSy under Gordian ; did now fend an Embaflie 
lie the Court of Sapores King of the Perfians^ to get it 
1 re-eftabliftied ; which fijcceeded according to their Da- 
|^kes. Fologefm was a City built by Fologefes King of 
) the Parthians in the time of Nero^ on the Euphrates be- 
low Balylon : Ptolemy calls it Ovo?iyi(n<t<; ; Stephanus, Bo- 
Tioycniq 3 AmmianuSy Fologefta ; and P//^, lib. S. Folo' 
gejocirta. 
[ 3 - P^g- 97. KAl OYKONlCce^NA ^GIAHCANTA 
t3[PHMATQe)N. I fubmit it to the Judgment of the Ct i- 
ticks, whether this faulty place may not be amended, by 
reading it OTK OlKeloi^N A^elAHCANTA, &c, as 
D d like- 
