The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s1.34

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without any qualification,¹ and probably Euthydemus came from the great city on the Maeander which had already sent so many of her sons to the East (p. 6). A fine portrait-bust of him, thought to have been set up in his native Magnesia, is (or was) in the Torlonia museum in Rome;² it shows the strength of the man towards the end of his life, but not so successfully as the wonderful coin-portrait of him taken in old age. One has only to look at his face to see why he seized the crown: he meant to rule because he could.