The Greeks in Bactria and India c9.s1.69

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¹ Pliny VI, 47, Syriam, which may be an adjective or perhaps equally well a substantive: as Heracleia ‘the Achaean’ (next note) is twice referred to simply as ‘Achaea’ (Strabo XI, 516; App. Syr. 57), so this Antioch could have been called ‘Syria’, precisely as some English writers have called districts in London ‘Alsatia’ or ‘Bohemia’.