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sold first to some Persian nobleman, sometime after 

 appointed to the government of some district in 

 India^ where Ph^don was carried away by a party 

 of Hindus. Be this as it may, Ave find him afterwards 

 at Athens, as a slave again, to a man, who kept wo- 

 men and handbome young men, for the purpose of 

 prostitution. He was redeemed by Alcibiades at 

 the request of Socrates, whose disciple he became. 

 He founded the Eliac school, called Eretrian after- 

 wards, from its having been transferred to Eretria m 

 Eubcea, by Men ed em us his successor.* 



There was a regular trade carried on, to India ^ from 

 the accesson of the Ptolemies to the throne of 

 Egypt ^ to the conquest of that country by the Ro- 

 mans^ which did not cease till the middle of the se- 

 venth century, when the growing power of the Mu- 

 hamedans put an insurmountable obstacle to a regular 

 intercourse. The Greeks under the Ptolemies, had 

 settlements at Callian near Bojnbay ; but they were 

 driven out of them by the native kings. It seems 

 also from the Peutingerian Tables, that the Romans 

 had a" considerable settlement neai Muziris now 

 Mirjee, where they had erected a temple in honour of 

 Augustus ;t and they had also two cohorts, or 1200 

 men, to protect their trade. The imports and ex- 

 ports were the same as they arc to this day, as it ap- 

 pears from Arrian's Periplus, and the Justinian 

 code. 



The Greek Kings of Bactriana ruled over all the 

 countries on the banks of the InduSy even as far as 

 Sir hind, during a period of 129 years, that is to 



* See So IDAS, HssYCHius de illustrib ; and Laertius. 

 t See Peutingerian Tables. 



