But it must be observed, that in the Greek Coins, this Prince's Name is usually written ΑΥΤ. ΕΡΜΙΑΣ ΟΥΑΒΑΛΛΑΘΟΣ ΑΘΗΝΟΥ (as _Tristan_ says he found it upon several Medals,) but _Patin_ has the last Word only ΑΘΗ. I should be glad to peruse some of these curious Coins, especially if found in or near _Palmyra_: but I am inclinable to believe that his true Name was _Æranes Waballathus_ (as was one of his Progenitors, in Inscription _Pag._ 91.) though perhaps the remoter Cities of _Asia_ and _Ionia_ might by mistake write it _Hermias_. And 'tis probable that ΑΘΗΝ might be for the first Letters of the Name of ΟΔΗΝΑΘΟΣ, which in Syriack begun with an _Aleph_; and the Δ was with those People used instead of Θ, as we see the Month _Xanthicus_, written Ξανδικὸς in many of these Inscriptions, which doubtless was pronounced like D _blæsum_ or the Saxon D. Though this City were at that time so roughly treated by _Aurelian_, yet it is certain that he did not burn it, or destroy the Buildings thereof: And though _Zosimus_, on this occasion, uses the Words τὴν πόλιν κατασκάψας, yet that seems only to relate to his demolishing the Walls and Defences of the Place; and that Emperors own Letter extant in _Vopiscus_, doth sufficiently shew that he spared the City it self, and that he took care to re-instate the beautiful Temple of the _Sun_ that was there, which had been Plundered by his Soldiers. However, the Damage then sustained was never retrieved by the Inhabitants, and I do not find that ever this City made any figure in History after it: Yet the _Latin Inscription_, (Pag. 106.) seems to intimate, as if _Dioclesian_ had restored their Walls within thirty Years after. About the Year of Christ 400, it was the Head Quarters of the _Legio Prima Illyricorum_; and though _Stephanus_ gives it no better Title than φρούριον, yet it appears to have been an Archbishop's See, under the Metropolitan of _Damascus_. To say in what Age, or from what Hand it received its final Overthrow, which reduced it to the miserable Condition it now appears in, there is no light in any of our Historians; but it is probable it perish'd long since, in the obscure Ages of the World, during the Wars of the _Saracen_ Empire; and being burnt and desolated, it was never rebuilt; which occasions the Ruins to lie so entire, in a manner as they were left, neither being used to other Structures on the Place, nor worth carrying away, because of the great distance thereof from any other City. As to the Geographical Site of _Palmyra_, _Ptolemy_ places it in the Latitude of _Tripoly_ on the Coast of _Syria_, and four Degrees more Easterly, _viz._ Παλμύρα. οα, ϛ′. λδ.