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¹ Alexander’s bematists, Baeton and Diognetus, wrote Σταθμοὶ τῆς ᾿Αλεξάνδρου πορείας (Athen. x, 442b), founded on their measurements of his march across Asia; these were also the foundation of the book of Amyntas, variously alluded to as Σταθμοὶ ᾿Ασίας, Σταθμοὶ Περσικοί, and simply Σταθμοὶ (references Susemihl i p. 54). Eratosthenes used the later Seleucid survey in the form of ᾿Ασιατικοὶ Σταθμοί, Strabo xv, 723; Kiessling, *Hekatompylos* in PW col. 2794, showed that in places this survey differed from the measurements of the bematists, and fragments of it have been identified in the Peutinger Table (Tomaschek, *Wien SB* cii, 1883, p. 145). In *CAH* ix p. 586 n. 3 I suggested that some of the discrepancies in measurements between Eratosthenes-Strabo and Pliny might reflect differences between the Seleucid and Parthian surveys; on Pliny’s use of Isidore, *i.e.* the Parthian survey, see now Herzfeld, *Sakastan* pp. 5 sq.