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continued for some time, sufficiently long indeed to afford 
time to both combatants for reflection, neither of whom felt dis- 
posed to carry it to the bitter end. There was, in fact, a Je ttiog 
of kinship between the Macneil Euthydémus and t ace- 
donian Antiochus, and the latter began to see the rbacticel 
inutility of seeking further conquests, while his home affairs were 
still in confusion : a fellow Magnesian happened to be in a high 
position in the Seleucian camp, and to him king Euthydémus 
appli 
11. What could king Antiochus hope to gain by carrying 
the war further? It could not be to punish rebellion, for if it 
were he was no rebel, as it was not from the Great King but from 
the rebellious house of Diodotus that he had acquired Baktria ; 
and not till long a = Seleucid power in the East had ceased. 
to be effective of affairs in Eastern As’a was far differ- 
ent from what it had Dock in the days of Alexander; for he 
had only to look eastwards, and he would find the whole of the 
a in arms, and there could be no vacancy in Hellenic 
sovereignty without inviting such an irruption of barbarism 
as would swamp the entire East. Against this there was only 
Antiochus really lay in strengthening, not weakening its power 
to act as a buffer against the encroachments of the advancing 
barbarians. Antiochus, who from very similar representations 
had concluded peace with canola saw how much truth there 
was in the Baktrian argument, and 
Euthydémus surrendered a number of war elephants, afforded 
the provisions required for the army; and, it is to be presumed, 
for the Greek statements are not clear on the subject, ac acknow- 
ledged the supremacy of the Seleucian monarch as “‘ Great 
King.’’ In the final arrangements of the peace Demetrius, the 
son of Euthydémus, took part, and made so favourable an impres- 
sion on Antiochus that that monarch promised him the hand o 
his daughter. 
12. With his northern flank thus secured against invasion, 
and on the most friendly terms with both Parthia and Baktria, 
in the spring, apparently of 205 B.C., Antiochus crossed the 
indu Kush ; hi 
him over the comparatively easy Unah pass to Kabul, and the 
safe conduct through these regions must have formed one of 
the chief stipulations of the treaty concluded with Parthia three 
years before in Hyrkania. From Kabul he descended to Gand- 
Bannered,’’ and there is no doubt that the city of Balkh was intended. 
The phrase in the original old Persian is Bakhdhi eredhvodrafsha, the 
terminal of which, changed to Darapsa, is slain y the origin of the name 
as eg ae the Greeks. The Chinese Shi Ki = of the city as 
Lams i-ch’eng, city of Lamshi, where the / repres , the name thus 
mare for (Be recs piok: The route taken by Patock te | is lai 
