The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s1.282

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Presumably therefore Euthydemus’ expedition was from Ferghana to the Lake Issykul country, which was feasible enough; Seleucus’ general Demodamas had crossed the Jaxartes before him,⁴ but there is no hint of how far he went. Apollodorus indeed shows that Euthydemus reached his objective, the Seres, but he certainly did not manage to restore the gold route; the Seres can only have been one of a chain of middlemen, and the disturbance must have been farther to the north-east; naturally he had no chance of reaching the gold-producing country itself about the head waters of the Yenisei system.