1840.] from Bactr'ian and Indo- Scythian coins. 6/5 



However Demetrius may have been deprived of the Bactrian 

 throne, it is estabUshed^ that he founded an Indian empire ; 

 thence attacking Eukratides in Bactria, he was conquered by 

 this king, who then took possession of India also.* 



Let us first settle where we have to look for the empire of 

 Demetrius. Strabo, in the passage where he takes a general 

 view of the conquests of the Greek kings, mentions two of them, 

 Demetrios and Menandros, as the greatest conquerors. These 

 conquests included partly Ariana, by which Strabo means the 

 country of the Paropamisades, Arachosia, and Gedrosia ; and 

 partly countries to the north of Sogdiana. The mention of the 

 Serians does not lead us to China, as has been objected 

 to that reading, but to the Issedon Serica of Ptolemy, on the 

 borders of the Achardus, whether it be Yarkiang or Kaschgar, 

 and where indeed is the improbability of this supposition ? This 

 is the construction of the geographer, Dionysios (p. 752,) 

 Kal To-^apoif ^povyoi re, /cat iOvea fiapf^apa 2?7/owv." 

 These conquests lastly included districts towards India, and this in 

 two directions, in India Proper, beyond the last river reached by 

 Alexander, beyond the Hyphasis to the Jumna, and down the 

 Indus to the sea, comprising the Delta of Pattalene, and further 

 to the east Surastra or Guzerate, extending along the shore. f 



the epithet would be most acceptable, were it not wholly preposterous ; 

 for M. R. R. says, (II. p. 20.), " Cette id4e est si extraordinaire, qu'elle ne 

 comporte pas une discussion serieuse. Jamais en aucun temps et dana 

 aucun pays du monde on n'a brave I'opinion pubUque, ni outragfe la 

 raison et Thumanitfe au point de pretendre couvrir un parricide par le titre 

 Juste." I however will not venture " tantas componere Utes." It affords me 

 extreme pleasure to learn, that the science of Numismatics is the only 

 one which does not submit to force, and pay homage to crime, that it has 

 even necessitated such an abominable monster as the son and murderer of 

 Eukratides to preserve upon his coins, that respect for public opinion, 

 which he elsewhere so boldly violated ! 

 * Justin. XL I, 6. Strabo xi. 1, p. 516. 



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