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This (fries, or mannner of numeral expreffion, if 
agreeable to the learned, may with the fame faci- 
lity be continued ad infinitum. 
2 . The Palmyrene names of five of the twelve 
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months occur in our inferiptions. Thefe are Pel lul, 
Tebetb , Phjan, hdul, and Tijri. To which we may 
add from a Palmyrene infc iption, publ idled by 
(2) M. Spon, and others, that of a fixth, viz. She - 
hat, or She, bat, which has been applied to one of 
tire Syrian Months by fome of the molt celebrated 
(3) chrunologers. Thefe names point out to ns fix 
months anfwering, in fome refpedts at lead, if not 
intirely, to the Syro-Macedonian months, Apellaus, 
Aydynceus , Xantbicus , Gorpiceus, Hyper be ret ecus, and 
Peritius as mod evidently appears from what has 
been obferved by the (4,) learned Dr. Fabricius, and 
the correfpondent Greek inferiptions. But notwith- 
danding the agreement here mentioned, that they 
did not however exadtly coincide with the Syro- 
Macedonian months, we may perhaps be allowed 
to infer from the (5) fjrft of Mr. Dawkins’s 
Palmyrene inferiptions ; which feerns to intimate, 
that the fourth day of Tebetb was the twenty- 
fourth of Aydynceus, and confequently that the 
former began the twenty-fird day of the latter 
month. And that this Palmyrene inlcription has 
(2) Jacob. Spon. Mifcellan. Erudit. Antiquitat. p. 1. Lugduni, 
1685. Joan. Polen. Utriujq. Tbefaur. Ant. Rom. & Grac. Nov. 
Supplement. Vol. IV. p. 407, 650. Venetiis, 1737. Montfauc. 
L Antiquit e Expliquec, Tom. II. par. ii. p. 391. A Paris, 1719. 
(3) Scalig. De Emendat. Tempor. p. 95, 350. Guliel. Bevereg. 
JnjUtut. Chronologic, p. 71. Lond. 1716. Jo. Albert. Fabric. 
Menolog. p- 20. Hamburgi, 1712. 
(4) Jo. Albert. Fabric, ubi fup. p. 20, 44. 
(5) Dawk, Marmor. Palmyren. Infcript. Palmyren. I, 8. 
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