The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s7.114

c10.s7.114

² Some have put the whole thing much later, *e.g.* Warmington, and M. P. Charlesworth, *Class. Quarterly* XXII, 1928, p. 92. But the inscription given in Preisigke, *Sammelbuch* 2264 = Schubart, *Klio* x p. 54 n. 2, dated 78 B.C., and followed by *OGIS* 186 (62 B.C.) and 190 (51 B.C.), which all make the *epistrategos* of the Thebaïd *epistrategos* of the Indian Sea as well as of the Red Sea, shows that some important new thing relating to the Indian Ocean had happened prior to 78 B.C., and W. Otto, *Hippalos* 3 in PW, was clearly right in making this the first use of the monsoon, which he therefore put *c.* 100 B.C.; see also E. Kornemann, *Janus* I p. 55, and R. Hennig, *Terrae Incognitae* 1936 p. 228. Then H. Kortenbeutel took the matter further (*op. cit.* p. 48) by giving 111 B.C. as the *terminus ante quem non* on the strength of *P. Lond.* II, 13 (*i.e.* Sir F. G. Kenyon, Greek papyri in the British Museum 1898), which is substantially right (see his discussion); Kenyon’s actual words were ‘safely dated about the years 116–111’. Leider *op. cit.* p. 58 follows Kortenbeutel.