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Excerpt from The Ruins of Palmyra: Otherwise Tedmor, in the Desart

The pretence he made ufe of, to give fuch conduél: a colour of jultice, was that they did not obferve a juf't neutrality between the Romans and Parthians; but Appian b fays his real motive was to enrich his troops with the plunder of the Palmyrenes, who were merchants, and fold the commodities of India and Arabia to the Romans.

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