The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s1.193

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⁶ Pliny VI, 92, ad Caucasum Cadrusi, oppidum ab Alexandro conditum. This has been much misunderstood, and Cadrusi has been called a city (Tscherikower p. 104; Kiessling, Gedrosia in PW, 902). Certainly there were town-names in India ending in -i, which Greeks sometimes transliterated by iota and sometimes by eta. But had Pliny meant a town, he would have written, as he regularly does, oppidum Cadrusi, and on his usage the meaning is clear enough: ‘the Cadrusi (and among them) a city founded by Alexander.’ The Cadrusi are otherwise unknown; Kiessling thought it the same word as Gedrosi.