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A59105	The antiquities of Palmyra containing the history of the city, and its emperors, from its foundation to the present time : with an appendix of critical observations on the names, religion, and government of the country and a commentary on the inscriptions lately found there.	Seller, Abednego, 1646?-1705.	1696 (1696)	Wing S2448; ESTC R2998	159,551	445

and Herodes at least Three as the Coins expresly prove it being probable that Odenathus wore the Purple some time after Gallienus declar'd him Emperor before he assum'd Herodes to be his Copartner in his Government leaving his Crown and Scepter by Right to his Grandson Vaballathus Vid. Append but in the Possession of and de Facto to Zenobia and her Sons Herennianus and Timolaus CHAP. XVI O Denathus was murther'd the same Year that Gallienus was slain but some time before him For Anno Christi 260 Valerian was taken in the Sixth Year of his Reign after which the Persians managed the Affairs of the East according to their own Will and Pleasure Valerian's Son and his Copart'ner in the Empire Gallienus being lost in the mazes of his Vices and so devoted to his Pleasures that his Name was not so much as mention'd in the Army who seem'd to have forgotten him as entirely as he had forgotten himself and all Princely Qualifications for he rejoyc'd at his Father's Captivity which clad all Rome in Mourning and cover'd every Wise Man with Tears and diverted himself with Stage-plays Treb. Pol. p. 176 182. Horse-races and the Combats of the Gladiators in making himself Beds of Roses to wallow in in the Summer-time and Beds of Melons to gratifie his Palate in the Winter in building Castles of Apples and other Fruits and exercising his noble Courage in attacking them in finding out Methods how to Preserve Grapes Sound and Untainted three Years and Wines always in the Muste Figs always Green and Apples Ripe in every Month in the Year as if he had been born a Slave to his Belly and his Pleasures He spent all his time in Riot and Luxury in Wine and Women never would drink but out of a Golden Bowl despising Glass because common and cheap and every time chang'd his Wine his Concubines sate at the same Table with him and at the next Table to him his Buffoons Parasites and Jesters His Cloaths were foreign and different from the Habit of the Roman Princes his Predecessors his Hair powder'd with Gold and his Head crown'd with Rays while his most intimate Privy-Counsellers were the Roman Ladies And in this dissolute Course he lived till the Year of Christ 264. when Odenathus undertook and revenged the Quarrel and baffled and put to flight the formidable Host In which Year it is very probable the Persian King enraged at his loss of Honour Spoils and Conquer'd Territories put Valerian to Death Anno 268 Odenathus was murther'd and the same year Gallienus was slain For thus the * Treb. Pol. p. 184. Historian states his Accompts of Time Whereas Valerian and his Son reign'd Fifteen Years in the Sixth Valerian was taken Prisoner by the Persians after which Gallienus reign'd Nine Years some say Ten For its certain that he celebrated his Decennalia at Rome and after that overcame the Goths made a Peace with Odenathus an Agreement with Aureolus and overcame Posthumus and Lollianus After which he was slain near Milan by the Hand of Cerronius or Cecropius the General of the Dalmatian Troops What the Quarrel was between Gallienus and Odenathus and upon what Reasons no Historian that I know of gives any Account but perhaps the Coins hint it for in those of Gallienus Anno Christi 266 a year and more before Odenathus was murthered there often occurs Pax Augg. Concordia Augg. with two Right Hands joined 'T is true Mezzobarba understands the Inscriptions of the Union between Gallienus and the junior Valerian but besides that Valerian was not Emperor till the next year after those Coins were stampt Anno Christi 267 as Mezzobarba himself confesses we never read of any Dispute between them for the Younger Valerian was a Prince of excellent Temper and Modesty but a Quarrel there was between Odenathus and Gallienus as Trebellius Pollio says expresly Much less can I interpret the Coins to have relation to Valerian the Father as Monsieur Patin does for long before this year Valerian was a Prisoner in Persia and probably murthered It must be confest that there is great variety of Opinions concerning the Age of Valerian and that it is very difficult to adjust the precise time of his Death which happen'd at so great a distance from Rome and in a Country at open War with the Emperor which precluded all Communication But I shall endeavour to fix the Time * Tom. 3. pag. 1. Monsieur Tristan says expresly That Valerian was born An. V.C. 937. Anno Christi 185 and that he was murthered an aet 75 Christi 260 the very year in which he was made a Prisoner But the whole Assertion is precarious and built upon the wrong Supposition That he lived but 75 years and was flea'd the very year in which he was taken Signior Mezzobarba affirms that he was slain an aet 77. but fixes no year either from the Building of Rome or from our Blessed Saviour's Birth The Writers of the Imperial History of those Times say only in general that he lived to a great Age in the state of Captivity While the Writer of the Chronicon commonly call'd the Alexandrian allows him to have lived but 61 years but expresly affirms that he reign'd 14 years and that he was put to death by the Persians when Claudius and Paternus were Consuls Anno Christi 268 9. Most of the Old Fasti averr that Valerian and Gallienus reign'd 15 years and so does Trebellius Pollio and that Valerian was taken by the Persians Gallieno 7. Sabinillo Coss Anno Christi 266. as Idatius declares Among all which Writers there is great Variety but little Truth while its plain to me that Valerian was alive when Odenathus first took Arms for his Release and so could not be put to Death the same year in which he was taken Pag. 179. Trebellius Pollio expresly affirming that Odenathus exerted his utmost Vigour and attended to nothing else but that Valerian might recover his Liberty And the same Author as expresly avers Pag. 184. that Valerian was dead before Odenathus was murthered The Anger of God as he says appearing visibly against the Roman Commonwealth in that after Valerian was slain he would not suffer Odenathus to live I am therefore of the Opinion of the learned Monsieur Patin Pag. 405. that as soon as Sapores had experimented to his cost the Bravery and Conduct of the King of Palmyra and understood that his Design was to restore the Captive Valerian to his Liberty from an ignominious Slavery then his Rage transported him to that barbarous and inhumane Act of Cruelty A. C. 264 and if we may credit the Coin in Goltzius he was Deify'd after his Death Thesaur p. 70. But enough of this Digression let us return to Zenobia CHAP. XVII SEptimia Zenobia for so she was call'd and for the knowledge of her first Name we are wholly obliged to the Coins being thus left by her Husband the Empress of the East

was only a cover for notorious Debaucheries resolved to destroy all those Places that were destin'd to the Gratifications of the Flesh particularly the famous Temple of Venus in Phaenicia That on one part of the Mount Libanus near the top of it in Aphaca a Grove and Temple had been consecrated to Venus not in the middle of a City or in the High-way where the Ambition of the Heathens prompted them for the most part to build their Temples but in a retired Place remote from all Towns and publick Roads where a School of Lewdness was erected where effeminate Men prostituted themselves to unnatural Lusts in honour of the Daemon and the Female Sex laying aside all regard to Modesty and Religion devoted themselves to gratifie the irregular Desires of all Pretenders they living without Control or Observation because no vertuous Person durst approach the Place till that illustrious Prince commanded his Soldiers to demolish the Temple and so put a period to those abominable Practices giving the Pagan Inhabitants truer Notions of Religion and Chastity This says Eusebius was the Fate of that infamous Temple But see the Malice and Disingenuity of a zealous Heathen Zosimus affirms that a miraculous Fire hover'd over the Place in his time And Damascius tells strange Stories of the same nature Vit. Isidor in his days of the Globes of Flame the Baetuli that frequently appear'd about Mount Libanus That the Worship at Aphaca was in use before Marcus Antoninus's Reign the Palmyrene Inscription demonstrates Zosim ubi sup The Solemn Meetings there were Annual the Practices most execrable Lust and Luxury making a great Figure in all their pretended Religious Ceremonies especially in that Country Lucian himself avering that at Byblus De Syr. p. 658. ult a very little way from Nacle the Women who refused to cut their Hair in the time of their solemn Mourning for the Death of Adonis were obliged for a whole Day to prostitute themselves to all Strangers and whatever they got was to be spent in a Sacrifice to Venus Aphaca was the Name of the Place says Zosimus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Eusebius seems to be of the same Opinion there being many Cities of that Denomination in Syria Euseb de loc Hebr. one belonging to the Tribe of Juda another to the Tribe of Asher a third in the Coasts of the Amorites a fourth a City of Syria but others with greater probability that the Name of the City was Nacle and of the Well Aphaca so says Suidas expresly V. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 v. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 upon the Authority of Christodorus who wrote the History of Nacle or Naclis a Book which if extant would have much illustrated this part of our History that it stood near Heliopolis and that the Rites called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as it is in the printed Copy were there performed What is meant by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Lexicographer informs Etymol M. V. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that it is a Syriack word in the Arabick it signifies Praeputium or Vinculum and that if it be fit to render such a word into Greek it signifies (a) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hence probably in Hesychius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Embraces Venus in that place embracing her Darling Adonis and probably Nacle has a like signification CHAP. V. An Accounu of Vaballathus HAving in the foregoing History averr'd that Vaballathus was not the Son of Odenathus as the generality of Writers have attested but the Grandson of that heroick Prince as Monsieur Tristan and F. Harduin have affirm'd I think my self obliged to give my Reasons for my Opinion the Roman and Greek Historians of those times being either wholly ignorant of him as I think Trebellius Pollio Zosimus and others were or mistaken in his Pedigree as Vopiscus who is the only Author who mentions him seems to be That Odenathus had Grandsons before he assum'd the Purple Trans p. 88. appears to me very plain from the Palmyrene Inscription where Septimius Odenathus the same I believe with the Emperor of that Name at that time a Man of the illustrious Senatorian Order and Dignity built a Monument for himself his Sons and Nephews or Grandsons 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That those Nephews could not be the Off-spring of Herennianus and Timolaus the Sons of Zenobia is to me undoubted because at their Father's Death they were very young says the Roman Historian Zenobia Trebel Pol. p. 180. quòd parvuli essent filii ejus qui supererant Herennianus Timolaus ipsa suscepit imperium and therefore may be supposed the Sons of Herodes or Herodianus whom Odenathus begat on a former Wife and for these Reasons and by the help of the Inscriptions I am enclined to deduce the Line of that Family after the following manner NASORUS VABALLATHUS AIRANES SEPTIMIUS ODENATHUS N. his first Wife ATHENAEVS HERODES SEPTIMIVS AIRANES HERMIAS VABALLATHVS SEPTIMIA ZENOBIA his second Wife HERENNIA●●● TIMOLAVS Daughters married at Rome to Persons of the Senatorian Dignity Their Children at Rome A. C. 400. I have been encouraged to believe that Odenathus in the Inscriptions was the same Person with the Emperor of that Name from his prae-Nomen Septimius which cannot justly be presumed to have been used in the East before the First Emperor of that Name made his Inroads into Persia Now Septimius Severus died Anno Christi 211 before which time Odenathus may well presumed to have been born being murthered Ann. Chr. 26⅞ and I have given him a second Son from the Authority of the Inscriptions where Septimius Airanes Pag. 99. a Man of the Consular Dignity is said to have been the Son of Odenathus the Date of the InInscription confirming it viz. A.C. 253. I have also adventured upon adjusting the Pedigree of his Ancestors from the same Inscription Pag. 88. where Septimius is said to be the Son of Airanes the Grandson of Vaballathus the Great-Grandson of Nasorus according to the Method of the Arabs who usually reckon'd their Descent after that manner for I cannot think Airanes to be the prae-Nomen of Vaballathus since all their fore-Names were either Roman or Greek to neither of which Languages Airanes belongs I have also subscribed to the Opinion of Tristan and Harduin that Vaballathus was the Son of Herodes not only because Herodes is in the Coins represented with a Beard which implies some Years beyond Youth while Vaballathus has a very young Face but because the Coins declare him to have continued Emperor after Zenobia was conquer'd and I am so far from thinking that his Mother-in-Law held the Empire in his Name that I believe she prosecuted him as she did his Father that she might enthrone her own Children the Subject it must be confest is much in the dark and for want of Directions from the Antients it is easie to be mistaken but the luckiest