The Greeks in Bactria and India c12.106

c12.106

³ We shall meet many *aporiai*, commonplace ‘hard questions’ or (colloquially) ‘stumpers’ (see further p. 430 n. 6). They were not confined to Greeks, and were proper to kings; the Queen of Sheba tried her collection upon Solomon, *I Kings* x, 1, and see Plutarch’s *Banquet of the Seven Sages* (p. 436). Though Plutarch there is very contemptuous about them, he was not above discussing them himself; see the essays *Mor.* 955 E ‘Whether water or fire be the more useful’ and 959 B ‘Whether the creatures of the land are more intelligent than those of the water’.