The Greeks in Bactria and India c21.13

c21.13

¹ Stephanus *s.v.* ’Αραχωτοί, citing Strabo XI, *i.e.* 514, calls ‘the Arachosians’ a city of India, which can only mean Isidore’s ‘White India’ (p. 53). As Isidore’s phrase belongs to the time of the Azes dynasty, *c.* 30 B.C.–A.D. 19, Stephanus shows that the name Demetrias had been lost and the old name had come back by that date, which agrees roughly with the period when the name Demetrias in Sind went out of use, p. 257 n. 3. The rest of the notice in Stephanus, for which he also cites Strabo XI, εἰσι δὲ καὶ ἄλλοι (’Αραχωτοί) πλησίον Μασσαγετῶν, has (as ἄλλοι shows) nothing to do with ‘the Arachosians’ or the city Arachosia; it is merely the ’Αραχωτοί on the Oxus of Strabo XI, 513, an obvious error for Apasiacae, see p. 91 n. 3.