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Diomedes, B. C. 100, and Hermseus, B. C. 98, continue the single 

 title — o-(OT77p : and the two last of the series of true Grecian monarchs 

 Agathokles, B. C. 135, and Pantaleon, B. C. 120, are both content 

 with the plain monarchic prefix. 



We now reach the epoch of the first barbaric princes of Bactria, of 

 whom it is sufficient in this place to say that they were Sakse, Sakas, 

 or Scythians, who, being says Strabo, " Asii, Pasiani, Tokhari,* and 

 Sakarauli," engaged the Parthians, and were ultimately forced upon 

 Ariana to the destruction of the Greek monarchies, and thence upon 

 India, in which their progress was arrested by the prowess of Vicra- 

 maditya, king of Avanti or Oojein B. C, 56, commonly called Sakari, 

 'the foe of the Sakas.' (Wilson in loc.) Some light is thrown 

 upon the immigration of these hordes by the accounts of Chinese 

 historians quoted by Messrs. De Guignes and Remusat, in addition to 

 the information afforded by Strabo and Trogus Pompeius, of the whole 

 of which Professor Wilson has made ample and excellent use. The 

 chain of numismatic evidence as respects these invaders commences 

 with the name of Eu, and Su Hermseus, according to the arrangement 

 in the Ariana Antiqua. The coins are of barbarous execution, the 

 Pracrit characters corrupt, the Greek very much so ; the title is 

 perhaps an exemplification of the actual manner in which the word 

 o-uyrrjpos — of the saviour — was locally pronounced in a barbarized Greek 

 dialect, viz. with the omission of the w. 



Passing over a few coins of uncertain names on which the learned 

 have bestowed much trouble, only, in my opinion, to prove to us that 

 they belong to a period of great internal confusion, during which the 

 dominant chiefs could not command the services of any educated 

 Greek, or even any competent artificer, we arrive at the epoch of Mayes 

 B. C. 100 ; a barbarian king, whose barbarian title runs — /Sao-iAevs 

 Pao-iXeuv fxeyaXov Matov — of the king of kings, of great Mayes : this 

 is translated in Pracrit — Uajadhirajasa Mahatasa Ma-a-sa. 



* These people are mentioned by Ptolemy as a powerful tribe to the north-east 

 of Bactria (Wilkinson's An. Mg. III. c. X.) and their name is read in the Hiero- 

 glyphs of Mudeenut Aboo as opponents of the ^Egyptian armies. The other names 

 tell their own history. 



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