ft will not therefore feem ftrange, if I fuppofe Aureliaii 
might find that Cuftom at Palmyray and at iiis return 
from thence inftitute the like at Rome. 
I am enclined to believe, that not only thofe two In- 
fcriptions, fag. 98, and the laft of pag. 99, but alfo that 
of /<3g. 100, were in Honour of the lame Septimius Fo' 
rodesy who feems to have been a great Favourite of Od£- 
ftathusj and was without doubt refpedted by the Romans 
on that account, whom I conclude to have effaced all 
the Memorials of Zenolia and Walal/athus, infbmuch 
that no one appears, among thofe many taken, that was 
let up during the fix years they reigned. The Name 
Forod^s feems the fam.e with Orodes^ which was the 
Name of the King of the Parthians that flew Cra(fus 
and the Verfians having, about forty years before, ex- 
pelled the KaccaithQJrfacida, 'tis not improbable but 
the Remains of that Royal Family might fly for fuccour 
to Palmyra^ and this For odes might be one of them. 
5*. In two other Copies of thefe Infcriptions ; the 
i firft of pag, 99. is read, ^^itriiMov Kl^vlw 'O^ow^afej 
and not 'O5^wo9a as in the firft Copy, and perhaps 
ought rather to be 'OSbt/yaiSoi/, as being the Infcription 
under a Statue of the fame Odanathus^ who is here, as 
well as on his Tomb, ftiled llkfirijfmus Patricius^ but 
without a Date. 
1 6. mo IAPlB:t)AOT ©eOT (pag, 97. & 103.) 
lit cannot well be doubted, but that this Deus Jariholus 
jis the fame with what Gruter Qag. 8(5.) and Spon (in 
I the firft of his Infcriptions) reads ATAlBo&Aoo. By the 
I Figure of the Idol extant in Spon^ it appears that this 
God was made with the Moon upon his Shoulders, and 
iconftquently was the Dm Lunm worfoipped by the jS)^- 
\rianSi whofe Name, in the Language of that Country, 
jcould not be better exprefied than by JarehMl '7l^\'\'2 
\Dommis Lupus. .Whence I am induced to bi^iiei^^, ihat 
iGruter miftook it ATAlB^^ctj ib| A 
