The Greeks in Bactria and India c9.s1.136

c9.s1.136

⁵ The natural supposition would be that the new cities had an alliance (συμμαχία) with the king, entitling him to call upon their troops as technically ‘allies’; but there is no evidence on the subject (p. 24 n. 1). I cannot believe that, if the king could not call out the citizens of (say) Magnesia without their consent, he could without their consent call out the same men when Magnesia had transferred them to (say) Antioch in Persis, even if consent could not easily be withheld.