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Points in the History of the Greek, and Indo-Scythian Kings 

 in Bactria, Cabul, and India, as illustrated by decyphering 

 the ancient legends on their coins. By Christian Lassen, 

 Bonn, 1838.» 



Here we must try to supply Strabo^s brevity by other accounts. 

 I ascribe to Menandros the subduing of Pattalene and Syrastrene. 

 Strabo makes no mention of these districts as conquests of Me- 

 nandros beyond those of Alexander's expedition, because Alex- 

 ander had advanced to Pattalene, therefore in this direction to 

 the sea-coast. This interpretation is proved probable by the 

 well known passage in the Periplus,* according to which, coins 

 of Menandros and ApoUodotos were still in use during the Ro- 

 man era in Barygaza. To Demetrius we must assign the conquest 

 of Ariana, viz. the country of the Paropamisades and Arachosia ', 

 this is the opinion already formed by Bayer, f on the autho- 

 rity of Isidor of Charax, who mentions among the towns of 

 Arachosia, ^apcra-ya ttoXiq, Kai Ar/jur/TjOeac ttoXiq, eira 'AXe^av- 

 OjOOTToXtc, ixr]TpQTro\iQ^ KpayjiyGiaq, icrri S' 'EXXr/v/?. This (town 

 of Demetrius) was probably built by him. But when Bayer 

 thinks Demetrius also founded a town on the borders of the 

 Hydaspes, because Ptolemy says of ^ayaXa i] Kai EvOv/mii^ia 



^ Continued from p. 676. vol. ix. 

 • p. 1 7. Huds. t p. 84. 



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