The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s2.92

c10.s2.92

³ In xv, 686 Strabo contrasts Apollodorus with some unnamed writer who uses the form Hypanis and exaggerates city numbers in round thousands (Alexander had 5000 cities between Hydaspes and Hypanis). In 693, a named fragment of Aristobulus (= F. Gr. Hist. fr. 35, 19), a similar exaggeration of city numbers in round thousands occurs (the shifting of the Indus made over 1000 cities desert). Therefore the unnamed writer of 686, who uses the form Hypanis, is Aristobulus, though the passage is not given as his in F. Gr. Hist. It is morally certain that the Hypanis of 700 is from Aristobulus also. Strabo took the form from him.