The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s3.42

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⁶ See generally Tarn, *CAH* IX p. 577. At one moment, which must be earlier than the conquest of Media by Mithridates I, Parthia was bounded on the west by an otherwise unknown Median people called by Pliny (VI, 113) Pratitae, *i.e.* the people of the *pratum* or ‘meadow’, the Nesaean fields; no doubt a translation of some Iranian name. The Nesaean fields were still Seleucid under Antiochus IV, Polyb. XXX, 25, 6 (his Nesaean horses, 166 B.C.).