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³ Von Gutschmid’s date (*Gesch. Irans* p. 104), though he himself called it an unsafe calculation. He was going on the list in the *Vayū-purāṇa* which gives eight Greek kings of India—Demetrius, Eucratides, Apollodotus, Strato I, Strato II, Zoilus, Menander, Dionysius—and puts Menander two generations after his great-grandson. The sooner this worthless list is allowed to die the better. Even later dates for Menander have been suggested; see Winternitz, Eng. Tr. II p. 174 n. 2. I need not consider them.