748), were to serve the great-king as a sort of toll-supervisors, and to levy tolls for him and themselves at the passage of the Euphrates.
These "Osrhoenian Arabs" (-Orei Arabes-), as Pliny calls them, must also be the Arabs on Mount Amanus, whom Afranius subdued (Plut.Pomp.

39).
8.

The disputed question, whether this alleged or real testament proceeded from Alexander I (d.

666) or Alexander II (d.

673), is usually decided in favour of the former alternative.