The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s5.92

c10.s5.92

The Yueh-chi horde, therefore, was composed of two different peoples, who appear in Greek as Asii and Tochari. ‘Trogus’ source’ gives the relationship: reges Thocarorum Asiani—the Asii are lords of the Tochari.⁵ That is, at the time of the conquest of Bactria the Asii were the dominant or ruling people,⁶ however the horde may have originally taken shape. The idea occasionally put forward that the Asii conquered the Tochari after the conquest of Bactria may be summarily dismissed. Had Trogus meant this, he (or any other Latin writer) would have said so, and would not have used a phrase of unexampled ambiguity and clumsiness for its (supposed) purpose; while the fact that the Chinese had the Tochari name in the second century B.C., but