of Gaj, was his cotemporary at the period of the expedition of Antiochus, we may suppose that Demetrius retained the sovereignty of the countries he conquered, and extended his conquests in Arachosia, now thrown open to his arms. Accordingly, in a route of Isidorus of Charox the name of a city, Demetrias of Arachosia, occurs, which would seem referred with justice by Schlegel to the son of Euthydemus, and which points out the direction of his empire. Without power of reference to the route of Isidorus, in which the name Demetrias occurs, we may observe, should it be found in any of those from the western provinces, as Ariana, &c. to the eastern ones on the Indus, we should incline to place it in the valley of the Turnek, between Kandahár and Mokur, in the country now inhabited by the Thokí Gulzyes, where we have evidences that a powerful capital once existed, which may have been that of Demetrius. The attack of Demetrius, or his son, of the same name, upon Eucratides may have arisen from the irksomeness naturally to be felt at the vicinity of a powerful and ambitious prince, who, by the extension of his empire, had sufficiently evinced his desire of aggrandizement. History, which records Demetrius as the aggressor in this war, also records that Eucratides had possessed himself of Ariana, and we find that he was also master of the regions south of the Indian Caucasus, thus pressing upon the confines of Arachosia at the two extreme points of east and west. Aggression on the point of Demetrius may therefore have been a measure of necessity, or even of prudence, it being certainly more politic to aggress than to be reduced to repel aggression. It has not been our fortune to meet with a coin of Demetrius, or to be acquainted with the type of that procured by Baron Myendorff at Bokhárá; but unless the reverse be decidedly Bactrian, a bust adorned with the skin of an elephant would not be sufficient evidence, in our estimation, to allow its appropriation to the son of Euthydemus. I have a letter from M. Martin Honigberger, from Bokhárá, by which I learn that he has also procured there a coin of Demetrius, but he has not described its character. It may be noted that these two coins of Demetrius, the only ones, we believe, hitherto discovered[1], have been elicited at Bokhárá. Among the coins obtained by M. Honigberger at Bokhárá, and which he thought worthy of enumeration, probably as being both Greek and silver ones, are transcribed in his memorandum,
1 Vasileos Antiochu. 1 Vasileos Dimitriu. 1 Vasileos Megalu Hiokraksu. 3 Vasileos Euthidimu. 5 Eucratides.
- ↑ There is a beautiful little Demetrius in the Ventura collection; see vol IV.—Ed.
