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sponda lecti, &c. which is both a Chaldee and 
a Syriac word, renders the latter part of the infcrip- 
tion fufficiently intelligible. For operimentvm 
et lectvm here may be confidered as equivalent to 
lectvm opertvm, or perhaps fimply lectvm, 
as the correfpondent Greek word has been tranflated 
by Dr. Bernard. The chara&er reprefenting Vau t 
prefixed to the word I am now upon, agrees with 
the figure of that element, as it occurs in my fecond 
Palmyrene (io) alphabet. For a farther account 
of thefe beds of hate, as well as feveral other fimilar 
infcriptions, recourfe may be had to the (n) author 
here referred to. 
8. The lah word of the infcription is apparently 
ArA0ANrEAO£, agath angel vs, the 
name of an Abilenian, who erected a cupola, or ca- 
mera, and placed under it a bed of hate, dedicated 
to Jupiter Maximus Fulminator, or the fupreme God 
Jupiter the Thunderer, for the health and fafety of the 
emperor Hadrian, his fovereign. This happened, ac- 
cording to the correfpondent Greek infcription, in the 
445th year of theaera of Seleucus, and the 17 th of that 
prince’s reign. The word ArA0ANrEAOI', aga- 
thangelvs, feems to be of nearly the fame import 
with ArA0OAAIM,QN, agathodaemon, the name 
of an (12) Alexandrian geographer of pretty confi- 
derable note. It alfo occurs in (13) one of Gruter’s 
infcriptions, but is evidently a cognomen there. The 
(10) Philof Tranfafi. Vol. XLVIII. Par. IT. p. 740. 
(11) Seller. Antiquit, of Palmy r. p. 364, 369. 
(ia) Agathodrem. Alexandria per Mercator, et Bert. Amft. 
1618. Vid. etiam Agathodaem. Alexandrin. Delineat. Orb. ex 
Lib. Ptolemaic Lat. Baf. 1552. 
(13) Jan. Grutcr. Infer ip t. Romanar. Corp. p. 644. r. 
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