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dilation, not unlike one in the beginning of the 
(a) Liturgy of the Syrian "Jacobite Cbrijiians , a La- 
tin veriion of which has been publifhed by M. Re- 
naudot. The thirteenth Palmyrene infcription gives 
us to underftand, that the fame religion, or religions, 
had been introduced at Tadmor, loon after the be- 
ginning of the fecond century. 
4. As a fimilar (b) infcription Rill remains, or 
was very lately to be feen, near the well, or current 
of hot fulphureous waters, which undoubtedly con- 
Rituted in antient times one of the hot fulphureous 
baths of Tadmor, it feems not improbable, that the 
waters of thofe baths were medicinal ; and that by 
bathing thcmfelves therein, or drinking them, the 
Palmyrenes were frequently cured of various diRem- 
pers and indifpofitions. This, 1 fay, appears at leaR 
not improbable, from the matter and Rtuation of 
that infcription, in conjunction with thofe which I 
have here endeavoured to explain, and which had 
in all likelihood at RrR either the fame or a fimilar 
Rtuation. So that thefe inlcriptions, every thing con- 
fidered, may be deemed mutually to fupport and 
illuRrate one another. 
y. From the word LABVNA, NJD * 1 ?. P RO PA- 
TRE NOSTRO, in the third line of th e RrR in- 
fcription, we may infer, that the fecond letter Mleph 
was either inadvertently omitted by the infcriber, or 
virtually contained in the RrR letter Lamed , or Lo- 
mad . For LABVNA muR be rendered into Latin 
PRO PATRE NOSTRO, or fimply PRO PA- 
a) Eufeb. Renaud. Liturgiar. Oriental. Collett. Pom. ii. p. 2„ 
Parifiis, 1716. . , 
(b) Edw. Bernard. Monument. P almyren. p. 4 - Philojoph. 
Tranfatt. Vol. xix 5 N. 217, p. 109- 
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