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Synopsis:\xa0 Aurelian\u2019s vision compels him to spare the defiant citizens of Tyana.\xa0 As the Romans advance through Anatolia, Zenobia concentrates her forces in Syria, and the two sides finally clash at the Battle of Immae.\n\n\u201cAs soon as the Emperor was on his march thither, Ancyra submitted to the Romans, and afterwards Tyana, and all the cities between that and Antioch.\xa0 There finding Zenobia with a large army ready to engage, as he himself also was, he met and engaged her as honor obliged him.\u201d \u2013 Zosimus, the History\n\u201cZenobia would have ill deserved her reputation, had she indolently permitted the Emperor of the West to approach within a hundred miles of her capital\u2026The Queen of Palmyra animated the armies by her presence, and devolved the execution of her orders on Zabdas, who had already signaled his military talents by the conquest of Egypt.\xa0 The numerous forces of Zenobia consisted for the most part of light archers, and of heavy cavalry clothed in complete steel.\u201d \u2013 Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices