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a fignification, a little different from that which I 
have affigned it, in one of my former letters. It 
mav poffibly be prefumed to denote AN OFFICER, 
or MILITARY TRIBUNE, PRAFECTUS MI- 
LITIA:, vel TRIBUNUS MILITARIS ; that be- 
ing one of the (49) Syriac acceptations of this wqrd. 
But as the term CTPATIOUTBC, or rather CTPATI- 
OjTHC A Sr...., in the correfpondent Greek infcri- 
ption, manifeftly implies, that the perfon who erect- 
ed the ftatue, in honour of SEPTIMIUS ARANES, 
was a common foldier, or legionary, fuch as the 
PILANI were ; as this implication feems confirmed 
by the Palmyrene words HI, MILES EME- 
RITUS, A VETERAN, or VETERAN SOL- 
DIER ; and as the mutilated Greek term LIATPCON.. 
apparently denotes this perfon to have been inferior, 
in point of Ration, to the fenator SEPTIMIUS 
ARANES} my former verfions of Mr. Dawkins’s 
fifth Palmyrene infcription will, I am inclined to 
flatter mylelf, be allowed to ftand. However, I 
fubmit them, as well as every thing here advanced, 
with the utmoft deference, to the determination of 
the learned. 
14. With regard to the laft mentioned in- 
fcription, I muft beg leave farther to remark, that 
the month Tf/W, in which it firft appeared, anfwers 
to Hypcrberetaus ; which may be confidered either 
as a Macedonian or a Syro-Macedonian month. 
This is clearly deducible from Mr. Dawkins’s 
Edm. Caftel. Lex, Hettaght. p. 3493. Lond. 1O69. 
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