The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s1.141

c10.s1.141

³ Strabo XI, 513, ’Αρσάκης τὸν Καλλίνικον φεύγων Σέλευκον εἰς τοὺς ’Απασιάκας ἐχώρησε. φησὶ δ’ ’Ερατοσθένης τοὺς ’Αραχωτοὺς καὶ Μασσαγέτας τοῖς Βακτρίοις παρακεῖσθαι πρὸς δύσιν παρὰ τὸν Ὦξον. That the meaningless ’Αραχωτοὺς should be ’Απασιάκας is clear from the context. Polybius in Stephanus s.v. ’Απασιάκαι is a little more precise than Eratosthenes; they are an ἔθνος of the Massagetae, who live on the middle Oxus. Cf. Polyb. X, 48.