History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . Coin of Zabel.^ Avere at once laid out and conduits of water established to utilize themountain torrents and give life to the arid plain. An inscriptionrecently discovered is a complimentary address of the inhabitantsof Kanata to the imperial legate who, directly after the capture,had conducted a fountain within their walls.^AYitli rulers of such foresight the towns gainedlife, wealth, and a numerous i)opulation ; Petrabecame the centre of a considerable commerce,and we find the nomads, seized with a
History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . Coin of Zabel.^ Avere at once laid out and conduits of water established to utilize themountain torrents and give life to the arid plain. An inscriptionrecently discovered is a complimentary address of the inhabitantsof Kanata to the imperial legate who, directly after the capture,had conducted a fountain within their walls.^AYitli rulers of such foresight the towns gainedlife, wealth, and a numerous i)opulation ; Petrabecame the centre of a considerable commerce,and we find the nomads, seized with a taste forthe arts, decorating their cities with monuments,whose ruins, in the midst of solitudes, astonishand delight the traveller ; while many, won by. Arabia.* the attraction of the soldiers pay, entered the service of the Empire ; the old road-makers undertook to keep them. III.—ÂDiLIXISTRATION. These conquests, the first especially, prodnced a great effect atKome.^ Since the reign of Augustus the Empire had been augmented The era of the new province commences on the 22nd of March, lOG. (Waddiugton,Mel. de num., 2e série, p. 162.) ^ Heads of Zabel and his mother Seij^uailath, placed one upon the other. On the reverse,their names and two cornucopias. Bronze coin. ^ Ek wpovoiuç of Corn. Balbus. (Waddhigton, Inscr. de Syrie, No. 2,29(3.) * Alt Ali. ADQ. S. P. il R. OPTIMO PPJNCIPI. S. C. Arabia standing : at feel anostrich. Great bronze. One inscription mentions a cohors quint a JJlpia Petrfforum. (Bull, de VInst. Is70,p. 22.) In is cited the Ilia coh. Iturceorum. (Wilmainis, 1,030, 1864.) We possess many coins with the legend : Dacia captive and the image of a \v(juiau with IIP •iff*/«y fi
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