Valour of Women.

Zenobia the wife of Odenate King of the Palmyreni∣ans, [ 51] accustomed her selfe to all those many imploy∣ments Page  278 which her husband used both in peace, and warre: She loved her husband exceedingly, but having once conceived by him, she would lie with him no more till after her delivery: she was very expert in the Orien∣tall Histories, which she wrote, and left them for the use of posterity: She was very beautiful, and black sparkling eyes, and her teeth to white, that they seem∣ed rather to be pearles then teeth: her husband being treacherously murthered, she took upon her the go∣vernment, and having been formerly accustomed to the Warres, she fought often with the Romanes, Sub∣dued Egypt. and drave out thence Probus the Romane president: At last she rather by compact yielded to, then by conquest was overcome by Aurelian the Em∣perour, whose sonne married her daughter, and ma∣ny of her stock flourished in Rome long after. Lipsius.