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³ I do not mean that Ptolemy’s Margiane necessarily gives the correct boundaries, but that it shows there was such a kingdom; see also p. 90 n. 2. Of the scanty occurrences of the word Margiane, Pliny VI, 46 and Strabo XI, 516 = II, 73 are the Seleucid eparchy; Strabo II, 72, Isidore 14, Justin XLI, 1, 10, and the Parthian *Μαργιανή* coin (*BMC Parthia* p. 40) are the Parthian satrapy; Strabo XI, 515, a reference to the oasis, might be either; Curtius VII, 10, 15 and IX, 7, 4 are merely unsafe emendations.