Towards  Herod,  the  only  son  of  her  husband,  Odenathus —
for  Zenobia  had  a  husband,  though  the  readers  of  her  history
are  apt  to  forget  the  circumstance — Pollio  tells  us  that  she  dis-
played the  spirit  of  a  step-mother.  Herod  was  an  effeminate
creature,  wholly  given  up  to  Oriental  luxury,  delighting  in  pa-
vilions and  tents  ornamented  with  gold.  Odenathus,  "  moved
by  the  afifection  of  paternal  indulgence,"  says  Pollio,  sent  to
Herod  the  concubines,  riches  and  gems,  which  he  captured  in
war.  Such  a  Sybarite  was  not  likely  to  disturb  the  rule  of
a  woman  of  the  masculine  and  warlike  soul  of  Zenobia.
Pather  le  Moyne,  in  his  rhapsodical  work  on  great  women,
has  given  a  prominent  place  to  Zenobia,  '^  who,"  he  says,  "  uni-

*  The  famous  lines  are  by  Dean  Aldrich. :

"  Si  recte  memini,  caus£B  sunt  quinque  bibendi,
Hospitis  adventus,  pr^esens  sitis  autque  futura,
Aut  vini  bonitas,  aut  qurelibet  altera  causa."

t     Alison,  "  Hist,  of  Eurone,""  vol.  iii.  v.  114.  Edit.  18-17.
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