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# The Greeks in Bactria and India c9.s2.40

The Greeks in Bactria and India c9.s2.40

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### [c9.s2.40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.40)

⁷ Susemihl’s reason (II pp. 258-9) for identifying the two seems conclusive. V. Arnim, \*Diogenes\* 46 in PW, identifies Diogenes the Epicurean, known from Diogenes Laertius, with the writer of Tarsus, but makes a separate person of Diogenes of Seleuceia (ib. no. 47); it was however very common for a man to be attributed to two cities, meaning that he was born in one and worked in and probably became a citizen of the other; see Tarn, \*Hell. Civ.\* p. 80.

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