The Greeks in Bactria and India c23.14

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c23.14

³ Droysen I, 2, p. 66 (ed. 1877) saw that it was nonsense; and the Chinese evidence and that of Strabo XI, 506 as to the Aorsi lying round the heads of the Aral and Caspian is conclusive. U. Wilcken, *Alexander der Grosse* p. 162, has a most interesting idea: Pharasmanes (who had just given asylum to Spitamenes) was challenging Alexander to fight the nomad world.

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