The Greeks in Bactria and India c33.19

c33.19

To sum up the Greek side. We have forms of the name with the second syllable aspirated but not the first, one of which is certainly Hellenistic; forms with the first syllable aspirated but not the second, one or more of which may be Hellenistic; and forms with no aspirate at all, one of which almost certainly is, and all may be, Hellenistic. Moreover each aspirated form has an unaspirated parallel; with Tocharoi—Tachoroi compare Takor(aioi); with Thagouroi compare Tagour(aioi); with Thogari, Thogara, compare Tagorae. Is this conclusive (as ex hypothesi it ought to be) that the name of the historical Tochari was certainly aspirated? I do not so see it, and one must consider what it means.