The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s7.25

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⁶ If ‘slave’ be used either in the Persian (Achaemenid) sense of any subject not royal, or in the Graeco-Parthian sense of any subject not *āzāt*, a member of the privileged Parthian nobility (Rostovtzeff and Welles, *Yale Class. Stud.* II p. 52; H. W. Bailey, *BSOS* VI, 1932, p. 953), which in Greek was rendered by ἐλεύθερος; hence the strange idea in some Roman and modern writers that Surenas took an army of slaves against Crassus.