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year of our Lord 23$ ; when he marched againfl: 
Artaxerxes, king of Perfia, overthrew him with 
great daughter, and forced him, after he had raifed 
the fiege of Nifibis, to retire with fhame into his 
own dominions. 
8. 1 have taken the liberty to convert the fixth letter 
in the fecond line of the fixth infcription, which 
feems to refemble Mem or Koph, into Nun ; as 
ADINATH, or ODiENATHVS, was the proper 
name of feveral great perfonages at Tadmor ; whereas 
we have little reafon to think, that fuch a pro- 
per name as ADIMATH, ADICATH, ARI- 
MATH, or ARICATH, was ever known amongft 
the Palmyrenes. 
9. The word MADA, or MADDA, feems to be 
the fame proper name with MA 00 A, or MAT- 
THA, that occurs in the fifth of Dr. Bernard’s 
Greek infcriptions. 
10. That the three words following ACTPATHrA, 
in the fourth line of this infcription (however dif- 
figured or defaced by time, or inaccurately taken)' 
were originally what I have made them, is rendered 
probable by the mutilated words MAPTTPH0EN. . 
TEIMHC AMEN . . . , and EOT AH . . , exhibited, as 
well as the proper names CEAETKON and CEEIAA- 
AT : : : : , by the correfpondent Greek infcription. 
11. With regard to the words tS'Qfc', which 
likewife prefent themfelves to our view in the fixth 
infcription, they cannot well admit of any other fenfe, 
than that which I have affigned them. However, as 
they can receive no manner of illuflration from the 
fragments of the correfpondent Greek one, I only of- 
fer this, as what appears to me at prefent the moft 
probable j efpecially, as the infcription I am confider- 
4Y 2 ing 
