The Classical Accounts of India c23.28

c23.28

II Palmyra at this period still retained its national character and civilization and was essentially a Syrian republic. It had not yet merged into that Graeco-Roman city which it became after the time of Trajan, and which its ruins and the legends on its coins and the names of some of its citizens illustrate. Greek and Roman residents it no doubt admitted, but they could have been neither numerous enough nor powerful enough to have organised and forwarded our embassy.