The Greeks in Bactria and India c9.s2.83

c9.s2.83

² One cannot take it as 321 (Ray *op. cit.*) or hesitate between the dates (Raychaudhuri *op. cit.*) for two reasons: (1) because in the preceding sentence in Justin Sandracottus gets his kingdom after a war with the Macedonian satraps, and the last one, Peithon of Gandhāra, did not leave India till 316; and (2) because from 316 to 312 Seleucus was a homeless fugitive, a captain in Ptolemy’s service who owned nothing but his sword. Incidentally, the passage proves that the Seleucid Era known to ‘Trogus’ source’, *i.e.* that used in Bactria and India, was the Macedonian form which began in autumn 312.