The Greeks in Bactria and India c34.4

c34.4

P. 417, n. 7. H. Bengston, *Philol.* XCII, 1937, p. 129, asserts that *Ἰων* is derived from *ἸάFων*, but his references do not bear this out. The difficulties have been investigated by P. Kretschmer, *Glotta* I, 1909, p. 14 n. 4, who suggested that they were parallel forms, and by A. Cuny, *Rev. E.G.* XXXIV, 1921, p. 155, who suggested that *ἸάFονες* was not Indo-European and was adopted in Asia by the Greeks. But no writer seems to have noticed the two similar parallel forms in India.