The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s3.78

c10.s3.78

For Eucratides cannot possibly have taken a very large force with him, seeing that the main Seleucid army, 55,500 strong,¹ was with Antiochus in Egypt and was reviewed by him at Daphne. Presumably he had his own troops as governor of the upper satrapies, with some additional mercenaries; though no guess can be made at its strength, it can hardly have seemed an army adequate to overthrow Demetrius. But Eucratides was not altogether relying upon his own sword. His story has been obscured by modern writers persistently calling him a rebel against Demetrius, a statement devoid alike of authority and possibility. He was not a rebel; but he raised a rebellion.