Excerpt from Palmyrae Sive Tadmur Urbis Fata Quae Fuerint Tempore Muslimico: Dissertatio Inauguralis
Cum multi fuerint, qui fata Palmyrae antiqua, quo tempore inter potentes Orientis urbes potentissima exstabat, uberius et pro inscriptionum aliorumque fontium copia penitus tractabant, parva tantum doctorum inquisitione fructi sunt ii anni, quibus post fatalem illam expugnationem urbis splendor evanuerat. 1) Et paene iure quidem, cum et propter summam fontium penuriam res in grata videretur, et urbs, quae tam graviter ceciderat, ut eius auctoritas inter urbes orientales minima facta esset, monographia indigna putaretur. At non, ut multi volunt, 3) Palmyra tum solitaria omnique populo privata fuit, sed prae commodis illis et divitiis Zenobiae aetatis omnes res deteriore erant loco.
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