The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s1.317

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³ Porphyry, de abstinentia IV, 21 is not independent evidence. He uses this story and others to prove a point, which is always suspicious; he introduces the sentence with ἱστοροῦνται γοῦν, ‘anyhow the story goes that’, showing that he was merely copying, not affirming; and his statement that Alexander’s ὕπαρχος Stasanor tried to stop the custom is definitely wrong, for Stasanor did not become satrap of Bactria till two years after Alexander’s death, Diod. XVIII, 3, 3; 39, 6. It is a hash-up of Onesicritus.