734 Lassen on the History traced [No. 104. 



(ed-f<f^ta) the clue is fallacious. We shall not indeed reject 

 the excellent conjecture^ that EvOu^r^^ta is to be read^ and that 

 the town was named after Euthydemos^ but why should no one 

 except Demetrius so name a town ? 



If our remarks above made to the effect^ that the Greeks in 

 Bactria previously to the year 200 b. c.^ possessed no territory 

 whatever to the south of the Indian Caucasus be correct^ the fol- 

 lowing arrangement of our known facts suggests itself. When 

 Euthydemos was relieved from the attacks of Antiochos^ he 

 made an invasion^ either in person or through his son, Demetrios, 

 of the countries to the south of the Caucasus; here he must 

 have first encountered the Paropamisades. Arachosia bounds on 

 them on the westward, and from thence Demetrios most probably 

 endeavoured to reconquer his paternal inheritance. That here 

 was the main site of his power, is confirmed by the name of the 

 town, Demetrias, and this likewise explains why we have but 

 so few coins of his ; they must be looked for in Candahar. 



His dominion in western Cabulistan and Arachosia sufficient- 

 ly explains the title, ^^ King of the Indians. '^ Demetrios, however, 

 pretends, by the adoption of elephants as trophies, to victories 

 over India Proper, and we have no ground for denying his right 

 to them. 



It is true, those victories would prove hardly probable, if 

 Menandros were his cotemporary, as Mr. Mueller thinks.* 

 But he takes Strabo^s words in a too literal sense, while they, 

 as the passage plainly shows, are intended only as general expres- 

 sions. The coins at least afford no proof that both were cotem- 

 poraries.f 



The chronological tables to be obtained for the history of 

 Bactria, can only result from a comparison of all the passages 

 relative to this inquiry. 



* p. 209. 

 t I drew no conclusion for my assertion from the non-existence 

 of the Cabulian letters on the coins of Demetrios, as this may be accounted 

 for by his governing countries more to the westward, where the use of 

 those letters was not so common as in Cabul. It is, however, the most 

 probable supposition that he did not use Cabulian letters, because his 

 successors had the first idea of adopting them (on their coins.) 



