The Greeks in Bactria and India c26.14

c26.14

² There was in existence in Strabo’s own time (XI, 506) a trade-route from the East to the Black Sea which passed *northward* of the Caspian, the Aorsi (who had by now absorbed the remnant of the Massagetae) being the middlemen, and which became important later; but this has nothing to do with the supposed Oxo-Caspian route.