[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) › c26.13 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c26.13 The Greeks in Bactria and India c26.13 - **Language:** English ### [c26.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c26.13) There was never then in existence more than one independent statement about an Oxo-Caspian trade-route, Patrocles’ report to Antiochus I, and the word ‘easily’ shows that its real meaning was, ‘You can easily make a trade-route from Bactria across the Caspian to the Black Sea if you like.’ This is confirmed by Strabo’s \*ἄπλους\* and by Pompey’s enquiry whether such a thing was feasible. There is no evidence at all that, in Greek times, any such trade-route from India ever existed.² - [Previous: c26.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c26.12) - [Next: c26.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c26.14) - [Up: c26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c26) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c26.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c26.13) · Pramāṇa