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Palmyrene word Cisleu ; and confequently aiTert 
Apellceus to have been amongft the Palmyrenes 
( 53) a Macedonian, not a Syro-Macedonian, month, 
as the Macedonian Apellceus only anfwered to the 
Jewifh Cijleu. From whence we may infer, that 
the other names of months, which occur in. the 
Greek Palmyrene infcriptions, point out to us Ma- 
cedonian months ; and therefore, that the very 
iearned Cardinal (54) Noris is not to be followed, 
when he feems to declare himfeif in favour of the 
contrary opinion. 
1 7. Before I difmifs the fubject I am now upon, 
it may not be improper to obferve, that the two Pal- 
myrene alphabets, lately difcovered, will probably 
enable the learned to decipher various obfcure le- 
gends, on the reverfes of Parthian coins, with which 
the cabinets of the great and the curious are adorned, 
confiding of characters hitherto termed unknown , 
and fuch as, were antiently uled either at Tadmor, 
or other places at no vad didance from that once 
mod opulent and flouridbng city. However, that 
feveral of thofe coins have preferved legends drawn 
up in a character receding fomething more from 
that of the Palmyrenes than the letters exhibited 
by the medal I have been conddering, there is not the 
lead reafon to doubt ; one of them appearing in 
my fmall collection, druck, as I apprehend, in the 
( 53 ) J°- Albert. Fabric. Menolog. p. 3 6, 42. Hamburgi, 1712. 
Edvard. Corfin. Fa ft. Attic, p. 450. Florentine, 1747. 
(54) F. Hen. Noris Veronenf. De Epoch. Sjromaced. p. 124. 
Lipiiae, 1696. 
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