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sibilant represented by Sanscrit ¥t, falsely render by Sakae. 
As Winckler was the first to point out, Getae, Cakae, Skythae 
Sakae, and the Assyrian Skuzai, are all merely renderings 
the one word—the Geat of the Goths and Anglo-Saxons. 
The movement, then, that led Eukratidas to attack 
The whole of these often were, as we have seen from the repre- 
sentations of Euthydémus to Antiochus the Gre at, in a sta 
ence. Behind them were the Turkish tribes of th 
Engaged in mortal conflict with these was the able Chinese 
Emperor, Wu of the Hans, who was straining the pepe of 
his powerful empire in the struggle for mastery ; and who had 
already opened up close intercourse with Parthia, then in her 
nascent stage of power. In front again were these same Parthi 
under the most energetic of their rulers, the two Mithrada’ 
so that the whole of contemporary Asia really formed a vast 
pretend camp. 
Eukratidas and his Saks had no sooner, as th 
Seed: settled down in a in Sie bcem India, than 
India, and succeeded in annexing not ‘only the ome 
the Maurya empire, but carried his arms into Sindh. 
egases, etc. 
63. Parthian government at no time took account of 
desires or sympathies of subject nations, and Parthian rule 1 
the Orient was no exception to the general rule ; but the — s 
had become too disorganized to be able of itself to s 
the hated yoke ; a ictlan. King Guthlaf with his 
haired Getic warriors essayed to cross the Linkage they 
