[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Greeks in Bactria and India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938) › c9.s2.15 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c9.s2.15 The Greeks in Bactria and India c9.s2.15 - **Language:** English ### [c9.s2.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.15) ² Livy XXXVII, 54, 18 (190 B.C., from Polybius): non, quae in solo \[modo\] antiquo sunt, Graecae magis urbes sunt quam coloniae earum, illinc quondam profectae in Asiam; nec terra mutata mutavit genus aut mores. Phrygia and Pisidia are explicitly included, ib. 54, 11. The speech need not be Polybius' own composition: the matter was important to Rhodes, and the gist of the actual speech of the Rhodian envoys might have been preserved by one of the Rhodian historians whom Polybius used. - [Previous: c9.s2.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.14) - [Next: c9.s2.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.16) - [Up: c9.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2) ## Cites (1) - [Ab urbe condita](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.livy) — T. Livius, Latin --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.15) · Pramāṇa