The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s3.126

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¹ Diod. xxxi, 16 (from Polybius) correctly makes it a great advertisement of his kingdom. ² Diod. xxxi, 17a (from Polybius). ³ II Macc. i, 13, ἀνυπόστατος δοκοῦσα εἶναι δύναμις. ⁴ Ptol. vi, 11, 7. ⁵ BMC p. 165 no. 1; certainly, from the style, struck in Bactria, not in India. Cf. the medal struck by Alexander after his victory over Porus. ⁶ βασιλέως μεγάλου Εὐκρατίδου. ⁷ It was also copied from Antiochus III on some Parthian ‘beardless’ coins, which Wroth (BMC Parthia p. xxix) assigned to Phriapatius and Phraates I, i.e. earlier than Eucratides. But Eucratides was not copying Parthia. ⁸ OGIS 245, 246.