The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s3.212

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Sacas too have to come into the story somehow (see App. 16); but though the Sacas were to Bactria what the Galatae were to the princes of Asia Minor—Spitamenes had called them in against Alexander, Euthydemus had threatened to do so against Antiochus III, Ferghana in 101 B.C. by the same threat was to secure decent terms from the invading Chinese (p. 310)—in this case they were not called in by Demetrius II but must have come with Mithridates. For though the strength of Mithridates had been greatly increased by his conquest of Media in 161–60, he had to conquer it before he could use it and it does not appear whence he originally got the strength to do so; the natural supposition is that he supplemented his own forces with a body of Sacas, whether as mercenaries or as allies.