[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) › c26.4 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c26.4 The Greeks in Bactria and India c26.4 - **Language:** English ### [c26.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.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. - [Previous: c26.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c26.3) - [Next: c26.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c26.5) - [Up: c26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c26) ## Linked texts (1) - [Naturalis historia](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.pliny-elder.6.52) — C. Plinius Secundus, Latin --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c26.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c26.4) · Pramāṇa