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of Gaj, was his cotemporary at the period of the expedition of Anti- 

 ochus, we may suppose that Demetrius retained the sovereignty of 

 the countries he conquered, and extended his conquests in Arachosia, 

 now thrown open to his arms. Accordingly, in a route of Isidorus of 

 Charox the name of a city, Demetrias of Arachosia, occurs, which 

 would seem referred with justice hy Schlegel to the son of Euthy- 

 demus, and which points out the direction of his empire. Without 

 power of reference to the route of Isidorus, in which the name Deme- 

 trias occurs, we may observe, should it be found in any of those 

 from the western provinces, as Ariana, &c. to the eastern ones on the 

 Indus, we should incline to place it in the valley of the Turnek, between 

 Kandahdr and Mokur, in the country now inhabited by the Thoki 

 Gulzyes, where we have evidences that a powerful capital once existed, 

 which may have been that of Demetrius. The attack of Demetrius, 

 or his son, of the same name, upon Eucratides may have arisen from 

 the irksomeness naturally to be felt at the vicinity of a powerful and 

 ambitious prince, who, by the extension of his empire, had sufficiently 

 evinced his desire of aggrandizement. History, which records Demetrius 

 as the aggressor in this war, also records that Eucratides had possessed 

 himself of Ariana, and we find that he was also master of the regions 

 south of the Indian Caucasus, thus pressing upon the confines of Arachosia 

 at the two extreme points of east and west. Aggression on the point of 

 Demetrius may therefore have been a measure of necessity, or even of 

 prudence, it being certainly more politic to aggress than to be reduced 

 to repel aggression. It has not been our fortune to meet with a coin of 

 Demetrius, or to be acquainted with the type of that procured by Baron 

 Myendorff at Bokhara ; but unless the reverse be decidedly Bactrian, a 

 bust adorned with the skin of an elephant would not be sufficient evidence, 

 in our estimation, to allow its appropriation to the son of Euthydemus. 

 I have a letter from M. Martin Honigberger, from Bokhdrd, by which 

 I learn that he has also procured there a coin of Demetrius, but he 

 has not described its character. It may be noted that these two coins of 

 Demetrius, the only ones, we believe, hitherto discovered*, have been 

 elicited at Bokhdrd. Among the coins obtained by M. Honigberger 

 at Bokhdrd, and which he thought worthy of enumeration, probably 

 as being both Greek and silver ones, are transcribed in his memorandum, 

 1 Vasileos Antiochu. 

 1 Vasileos Dimitriu. 

 1 Vasileos Megalu Hiokraksu. 

 3 Vasileos Euthidimu. 

 5 Eucratides. 

 * There is a beautiful little Demetrius in the Ventura collection; see vol IV. — E». 



