The Greeks in Bactria and India c26.4

c26.4

² Pliny 6, 52 (i.e. Varro), Jahn’s text: Adicit idem (Varro) Pompei ductu exploratum in Bactros 7 diebus ex India perveniri Iachrum ad flumen quod in Oxum influat, et ex eo per Caspium in Cyrum subvectos, et 5 non amplius dierum terrano itinere ad Phasim in Pontum Indicas posse devehi merces. This as it stands is neither grammar nor sense; the whole passage is framed on the words exploratum posse merces and governed by posse, and subvectos therefore ought to be subvectas and the following et should be omitted; subvectas, to agree with merces, is guaranteed by the subject of περαιοῦσθαι in Strabo 11, 509 being ‘goods’. Read therefore ‘in Cyrum subvectas 5 non amplius’ etc.