[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Greeks in Bactria and India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938) › c24.12 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c24.12 The Greeks in Bactria and India c24.12 - **Language:** English ### [c24.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c24.12) Before going on I must notice Naumachaeorum promunturium in Pliny VI, 152, the projecting land which forms the northern horn of the Gulf of Ormuz as C. Jask does the southern; Pliny calls it ‘over against Carmania’, a good instance of the use of ‘Carmania’ for the Amanis river country. Naumachaeorum is another of these mistaken transliterations (n. 3, below); it is ναυμάχων⁴ or ναυμαχούντων or something of the sort turned into a tribe, the reference being to Numenius’ sea-fight in the next sentence. This took place while Mesene (Chaldaea) was still Seleucid, and belongs to the reign of Antiochus III, probably to some movement in Persis after Magnesia; Numenius was his eparch of Mesene¹ and also commanded his squadron on the Persian Gulf whose fleet station was in Mesene, probably Antioch-Charax. But how he had a sea-fight with Persians of Persis, unless some Greek cities were helping them, is utterly obscure. - [Previous: c24.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c24.11) - [Next: c24.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c24.13) - [Up: c24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c24) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c24.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c24.12) · Pramāṇa