But nothing less than a Participation of the Empire contenting _Zenobia_, and _Aurelian_ persisting not to have it dismembered: He marched against her, and having in two Battles routed her Forces, he shut her up and Besieged her in _Palmyra_: And the Besieged finding that the great resistance they made, availed not against that resolute Emperor, they yielded the Town; and _Zenobia_ flying with her Son, was pursued and taken: With which _Aurelian_ being contented, spared the City, and leaving a small Garrison, march'd for _Rome_ with this Captive Lady: But the Inhabitants believing he would not return, set up again for themselves, and (as _Vopiscus_ has it) slew the Garrison he had left in the Place. Which _Aurelian_ understanding, tho' by this time he was gotten into _Europe_, with his usual fierceness, speedily returned; and collecting a sufficient Army by the way, he again took the City without any great Opposition, and put it to the Sword, with an uncommon Cruelty, as he himself confesses in a Letter (extant in _Vopiscus_), and delivered them to the Pillage of his Soldiers. And it is observable, that none of the Greek Inscriptions are after the date of this Calamity, which befell the City in or about the Year of _Christ_ 272, as far as may be collected, after it had been nine or ten Years the Seat of the Empire of the East, not without Glory. In this appears also the great utility of Coins to illustrate Matters of History; for by them alone 'tis made out, that there was such a Prince as _Waballathus_, _Vopiscus_ singly mentioning him by the Name of _Balbatus_. And from the same Coins it appears, that _Odænathus_ had the Title of _Augustus_ four Years, and _Waballathus_ six at least; and that the first Year of _Aurelian_ was the fourth of _Waballathus_. And by the Testimony of _Pollio_, _Odænathus_ was declared Emperor of the East, _Gallieno_ & _Saturnino Coss._ which was _Anno Christi_ 263, and died before _Gallienus_, but in the same Year, _viz._ _Anno_ 267, which, by the Coins, was the first of _Waballathus_. He therefore immediately succeeded _Odænathus_, and was without doubt his Eldest Son by _Zenobia_, and not his Grandson the Son of _Herodes_, as some learned Men have supposed: For if _Zenobia_ could not endure that _Herodes_ Son of _Odænathus_ by a former Wife, should succeed his Father in prejudice to her Children, and for that reason was consenting to his Murther (as _Pollio_ intimates in _Herodes_ and _Mæonius_,) much less would she endure the Title of _Augustus_ in the Son of _Herodes_, especially when her own Sons were, as 'tis probable, elder than such Grandson. So that 'tis most likely that _Herennianus_ and _Timolaus_, whom _Pollio_ reckons among his XXX Tyrants, might be the Younger Sons of _Zenobia_, on whom also, out of Motherly Affection, she might bestow the same Titles of Honour.