The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s1.142

c10.s1.142

⁴ Patrocles called the Oxus εὔπλους (App. 14; Polyb. X, 48 πλωτός only copies), which might have been suggested by native shipping on it. His εἰσπλέοντι (Strabo XI, 507)—the point of view of a man sailing into the Caspian down the gulf which stretched towards the Aral—may also indicate native shipping, for the use of εἰσπλοῦς just before may show that the word means more than simply εἰσιόντι. And on the Persian side the Mihr Yast § 14 refers to the ‘broad navigable waters’ of the Oxus; Christensen op. cit. p. 216. (See however p. 479 n. 7.)