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may be a native warrior throwing abundle of javelins or 
darts. The monogram (No. 5) resembles the last without 
the hook, (unless the hook below, as I at first supposed, 
forms a part of it) ; one half of the inscription consists of the 
same letters as appear on the coin of AppoLLoportus : it must 
therefore be the native title equivalent to BactAcws cwrnpos, 
This coin was purchased of a shroff in the bazar at Subdthi. 
Tn favor of these two coins I may venture to repeat the remarks of 
Professor ScuteceL, on the equally valuable pair discovered by Col. 
Top.—‘‘ These two medals are beyond all price, as much for their ad- 
mirable preservation as for their extreme rarity and their importance 
to history.”’” And Il shall make no apology for also translating the 
Professor’s learned commentary on that part of the Bactrian history 
connected with them, at length, as much more satisfactory than a par- 
tial gleaning or plagiarism of his remarks, which so well exemplify the 
-use of numismatology in correcting the vagaries of historians. 
“‘In the profound obscurity which envelopes the history of Bactria, we must cull 
with care all that can throw the least jight upon it. 
“‘ We find only two passages in ancient authors which mention hing APoLLoportus. 
ARRIAN, the reputed writer of the Periplus, says, “Ag” 0b wéxpe viv ev Bapuydtos 
mohor al mpoxwpodor dpaxual, ypauwarw “EAAnviKots eykexapayuéval, érlonua tev 
per Arekavdpoy BeBaoirevedtwy ’AmoAAodoTov Kal Mevdvdpov. “For this reason 
even now ancient drachme are current at Barygaza [Brigu-gdcha or Baroach}, 
bearing, in Greek characters, the stamp of the kings who reigned after ALEXANDER, 
Apo.tiopotus and MENANDER.” 
The two coins now brought to light, agree better with this passage 
from ArriAn than those of Col. Top, on account of their exact simi- 
larity, which would allow them naturally to be coupled together in 
speaking of them. 
“The other passage concerning APoLLOpOTUS is from the summary of the history 
of Trogus Pompeius, which is placed at the head of the abridgment of Justin. 
Prolog. 1xxi. 
“ Deinde, quo rege pugnante, Scythice gentes, Sarance et Asiani Bactra occupa- 
vére et Sogdianos. Indice quoque res addite, geste per Apoliodotum et Menandrum 
reges eorum.”” 
‘The printed editions have Apollodorum, which was corrected by the learned 
andjudicious BAYER, on the authority of the Periplus. ‘This reading is now fully 
confirmed by a medal (two), an authentic and public monument. VAILLANT and 
LoNnGUERUE suspected a corruption of the text, and sought to correct it in another 
way. ‘They thought that the name of ApoLLoporus, the historian of the Parthian 
and Bactrian kings, had been confounded with that of a king, and LoNGUERUE pro- 
posed to read ex Apollodoro, geste per Menandrum et Eucratidam, reges eorum. 
This is not correcting but disfiguring arbitrarily an ancient text; and yet the latest 
editor of JuSTIN in France, M. Lumarre, recommends this unwarrantable conjec- 
ture! 
