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according to Dio (32), the preceding year. Nay, 
it appears both from (33) Capitolinus and the Ro- 
man (34) coins, that M. Aurelius and L. Verus tri- 
umphed over the Parthians, the very year after Mon- 
nefes, as (33) Dr. Vaillant will have it, came to the 
crown. All which that celebrated antiquary ac- 
knowleges to be true ; and adds, that Monnefes 
concluded an infamous peace with the Romans, 
ceding to them the whole province of Mefopo- 
tamia, for which he was foon after depofed by 
his fubjedts. Here then we can difcover not the 
faintefl traces of a reafon for the appearance of a Vic- 
tory upon the medals of this prince. Nor does any 
thing like a reafon for fuch an appearance, in antient 
hiflory, occur, before the 950th year of Rome, cor- 
refponding with the 197th of Christ; when the 
Parthians, animated by the civil diffentions, which 
reigned amongft the Romans, Albinus and Severus 
then fiercely contending for the empire, entered 
Mefopotamia with a powerful army (36), and re- 
duced to their obedience mod of the cities of that 
(32) Dio, Lib. Ixxi. p. 802. Imperator. Romanor. Numifm. &c. 
Stud. iff Cur. Francifc. Mediobarb. Birag. p. 218. J. Foy Vaill. 
Can. Chronologic. Reg. Parthor. p. 41. 
( 33 ) J u b Capitolin. in M. Antonin. Philof. et in Ver. 
(34) Imperator. Romanor. Numifm. iffc. Stt/d. iff Cur. Francifc. 
Mediobarb. Birag. S. R. I. Com. See. p. 220. Mediolani, 1683. 
(35) J. Foy Vaill. ubi fup. & in Arfacid. Imper. p. 338. 
(36) Dio, Lib. lxxv. p. 853. J. Foy Vaill. in Arfacid. Imper. 
p. 356. & in Can. Chronologic, p. 42. Ludovic. Du Four de Lon- 
guerue, Ab. S. Joan, de Jardo ad Melod. et Sept. Font, in Therafc. 
Atinal. Arfacidar. p. 51. Argentorati, 1732. Erafm. Froelich, S. 
J. S. in Dub. de Minnifar. Aliorumque Armen. Reg. Num. ct Arfa- 
iidar. Epoch, nuper vulgat. p. 66. Vicnnae Auftriae, 1754. 
province. 
