The Greeks in Bactria and India c9.s2.5

c9.s2.5

¹ Livy XXXVI, 17, 5 (191 B.C.): Syri et Asiatici Graeci, vilissima genera hominum et servituti nata; XXXVIII, 17, 11 (189 B.C.): Macedones, qui Alexandriam in Aegypto, qui Seleuciam ac Babyloniam, quique alias sparsas per orbem terrarum colonias habent, in Syros, Parthos, Aegyptios degenerarunt. Note ‘Parthos’; it took some courage to write that after Crassus and Antony. Servituti nata is merely taken from Aristotle, Pol. III, 14, 1285 a l. 21 (cf. I, 2, 1252 b l. 9), Asiatics are slaves by nature; written before Alexander.