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b'Synopsis:\\xa0 Boxed in by Aurelian\\u2019s siege, Zenobia makes a desperate attempt to enlist the support of the Persians.\\n\\n\\u201cPalmyra was the last resource of the widow of Odaenathus.\\xa0 She retired within the walls of her capital, made every preparation for a vigorous resistance, and declared, with the intrepidity of a heroine, that the last moment of her reign and of her life should be the same.\\u201d \\u2013 Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire\\n\\u201cYou have the prospect of such Magnicient Ruines, that if it be Lawful to frame a Conjecture of the Original Beauty of the place, by what is still remaining, I question somewhat whether any City in the World could have challenged Precedence over this in all its Glory.\\u201d \\u2013 W. Halifax, A Relation of a Voyage from Aleppo to Palmyra in Syria, 1695\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'