The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s4.105

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⁴ Jos. *Ant.* xv, 216; xii, 261, 264; *I Macc.* x, 65. The usual view is that the meridarch governed some subdivision of a satrapy, but the difficulties are great; see U. Kahrstedt, *Syrische Territorien in hellenistischer Zeit* p. 54, whose own view, that the meridarch was head of the *Selbstverwaltung*, raises other difficulties in turn. It really looks as if καὶ μεριδάρχης in *I Macc.* x, 65 is an unintelligent gloss.