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before the Council oi Nice, and continued fo in the 
time of the Chalcedon Council, under the Arch-Bifeop 
of Damafcm; buc foon after, when Lihanejia was made 
a diftind: Province, and ^w^yiConftituted the Metropo- 
lis of it, it became a SufTragan to that Metropolitan (ftoc 
the Arch-Bifliop of EJefa^ as the Notitia fet out by 
Goar wrongly calls the City) aswasalfo Damafcus. 
In the Appendix the Author proves, that the Names 
of the Inhabitants were purely Syrian, with a Prenomeu 
often prefixt, iot the moft part Roman ; that their OfH- 
cers were fuch, as the other Cities of the Eaft lived under, 
and that the oldeft: Superftition was that of the Worfliip 
of the Hoft of Heaven ; to which is fubjoined the Lite 
of Nalal'Lachus, the Grandfonof Odenathus, and of the 
Excellent Critick Lcngims^ together with a Commenta- 
ry on the Infcriprions, wherein fome parts of the Roman 
Hiftory, before unknown, are Difcovered, and fome 
Rites of the Oriental Idolatry accounted for, particu- 
larly that of confdlting the Fountain of Aphaca in great 
Repute, in thoft early times, for its Oracles. 
ERRATA. 
TRanfad. l^umb, 2^2. Pdge 300. Line 2, after the mrd Current, infeH 
thefe words^ [going there conftantly Eaft, and] which words^ bymifiakf, 
were put into the Fourth Line, after the word Bahama, where they ought to be 
left out, p. 304, 305. for Pollipus r. Polypus. 
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