The Greeks in Bactria and India c18.11

c18.11

¹ Eratosthenes in Strabo XV, 723; ἡ μὲν ἐπ’ εὐθείας διὰ τῆς Βακτριανῆς καὶ τῆς ὑπερβάσεως τοῦ ὄρους εἰς Ὀρτόσπανα ἐπὶ τὴν ἐκ Βάκτρων τρίοδον ἥτις ἐστὶν ἐν τοῖς Παροπαμισάδαις. The words εἰς Ὀρτόσπανα, which have got in from XI, 514, make nonsense and should be omitted; the meaning is quite simple, ‘the direct road through Bactria and across the Hindu Kush to the τρίοδος in the Paropamisadae’.