670 Lassen on the History traced [No. 103. 



There have not yet been discovered coins of Theodotus and 

 his son of the same name, and they can only come from Bactria. 



Whether another king reigned between Theodotus II. and 

 Euthydemos, is unknown, but not improbable ; the one fact is 

 certain, that the latter sovereign dethroned the family of Theo- 

 dotus, for he alleged this very act in order to obtain the favour 

 of Antiochus 111.=* 



Upon Strabo's authority, above mentioned, Euthydemos took 

 possession of the districts adjacent to Bactria ; Parthia cannot be 

 understood by this, he must have meant Aria and Margiana ; he 

 had at least collected against Antiochus an army of horsemen 

 on the borders of the Arius,t and had already fought against the 

 northern nomades, he must have, therefore, certainly possessed 

 Sogdiana, and to him probably refers the notice, that the Greek 

 kings of Bactria divided their empire into Satrapies. J 



We owe to the expedition of Antiochus against upper Asia, a 

 clearer insight into the circumstances of those countries at 

 that period. This war, and the negotiations between the Syrian 

 and the Bactrian kings belong to the years 208-5. B.C. From 

 Polybios' account, which is extant, it follows, that the Parthian 



* Polyb. Fragm. xi, c. 34. Schw. III. p. 379. y^yovkvai yap ovK 

 avTog aTroffTaTrjg tov jJatJiXewgy aW iT£p(s)v airotJTavroJV, £7ra- 

 vfXo^tvoc roue ^Kdvtjv eKyovovg, ovtu) Kparriaai rrJc Bafcrpiavaiv 

 ap-^TiQ 



t Polyb. X. 49. 



I Strabo, xi. II, 2. oi ^£ Karaffyovrsg ai»Tr)v ''EXXrjvfc? 'fat ^tC 

 aarpairuaq ciypriKaffiv' iov ry]v tc 'Ao-Trtwvou Kai rrivTovpiovav 

 a(j>ripYjvTo ^FiVKparLSav ol TlapOvaioi. ''Ec^ov ^e Kai ttjv 

 ^oyciavrfv k. t. A. The two satrapies mentioned, evidently He toward 

 the northerly Scythian country, the frontier of Sogdiana. The^ Aawaaia^ 

 /cat (Strabo, xi. Scyth. 8.) to whom Arsaces fled, belonged to the Choras- 

 mians and Attasians, who have likewise the name Avyacnoi^ perhaps we 

 ought to read 'AffTradtoi. Polyb. (x. 48.) calls all Nomades about the 

 Oxus Aspasiaces, which is therefore a general term for the nations of 

 horsemen (Azpa, horse). Mr. Burnouf undoubtedly explains with 

 propriety Turiana by the word of the Zend Tiiirja ; it is the Turan of 

 Firdusis ; the Turanian satrapy of Bactria, according to Strabo. 



