The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s6.199

c10.s6.199

¹ Wylie, part 2 p. 85, ‘When the Han sent an envoy to Woo-sun, the envoy passed southward to Ta-wan and the Yue-she, forming a perpetual alliance with these nations.’ The statement is given by Pan-ku as though between the years 114 and 110, but is certainly out of place. The Yueh-chi had recently refused Chang-k’ien’s request for an alliance for a reason which made it unlikely that they would change their minds till some considerable time had elapsed. Ssu-ma Ch’ien knows nothing of this alliance, and it is not alluded to in his account of China’s war with Ta-yuan, 106–101. It must at any rate therefore be later than 101 and later than Ssu-ma Ch’ien. De Groot unfortunately neither translated nor noticed the passage; it is part of the section of text on p. 125 ‘mit Stillschweigen übergegangen’ because he had already translated the parallel section from the *Shi-ki*. But this particular passage is not in the *Shi-ki*.