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Mr. Dawkins’s eleventh Greek one prefenting no- 
thing of that kind to our view, but ATPHAI : : : : 
and part of the word HAIOAOPOT, if that be ex- 
actly taken. We may conclude, from the fifth Pal- 
myrene infcription, that the people of Tadmor, if not 
the Syrians in general, when it was written, called Par - 
thia BATRA, or BATRIA; which in found ap- 
proaches pretty near to the BACTRIA of the antients. 
The name TMTHT, TADMOR, confifting of five letters, 
and not of four only, as has hitherto been generally, if 
not always, fuppofed, occurs in the fame infcription. 
The two laft words of the fourth line of the fe- 
venth have either not been fo well preferved as the 
others, or not fo accurately taken. They may never- 
thelefs be read either HD’D |D, EX SVO MARSV- 
PIO, or pa GRATIS DE RE FAMILIARI 5 
either of which ledtions is confonant enough to the 
tenor of the infcription. The latter, which I have 
chofen here, feems however to be better fupported 
by the correfpondent Greek infcription ; as the Sy- 
riac po exadtly anfwers to the adverb nPOIKA 
there. Should the critics allow the words HD* pa 
as they now appear upon the face of the infcription, 
to ftand ; the Syriac HD’ muft be of the fame im- 
port with the Hebrew fW*. PECVNIA, DIVIT IJE, 
RES FAMILIARIS, &c. though it has for its mid- 
dle letter Samech , inftead of Schi?i. Nor indeed is 
this to be wondered at, as the Syrians fometimes 
ufed the former for the latter of thofe elements. That 
word, upon the foregoing fuppofition, fuffers here 
an ellipfis of the particle 3 BE ; as is evident from 
Mr. Dawkins’s thirteenth Greek infcription, with 
the fragments of which the feventh Palmyrene one 
extremely 
