The Greeks in Bactria and India c26.5
The Greeks in Bactria and India c26.5
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³ Kiessling, *Hyrcania* in PW, the best thing on Patrocles. Kiessling makes two points: (a) col. 465, Pliny no less than Eratosthenes depended on Patrocles; (b) col. 467, Patrocles said that goods *could* easily come down the Oxus to the Caspian and so to the Cyrus, and this was turned into a statement that they *did* come. That, in a nutshell, is the whole of the matter.