[493] Gadrosia was the furthest province of the Persian empire on the south-east. It comprised the south-east part of Beloochistan.
[494] This was not the range usually so called, but what was known as the Indian Caucasus, the proper name being Paropanisus. It is now called Hindu-Koosh.
[495] This city was probably on the site of Beghram, twenty-five miles north-east of Cabul. See Grote’s Greece, vol. xii. ch. 94.
[496] There are two kinds of silphium or laserpitium, the Cyrenaic, and the Persian. The latter is usually called asafœtida. See Herodotus (iv. 169); Pliny (Historia Naturalis, xix. 15; xxiii. 48); Aelian (Varia Historia, xii. 37); Aristophanes (Plutus, 925); Plautus (Rud., iii. 2, 16); Catullus (vii. laserpitiferis Cyrenis).
[497] Cyrene was a colony founded by Battus from Thera, an island colonized by the Spartans. The territory of Cyrenaica is now a part of Tripoli. Cf. Pindar (Pyth., iv. 457); Herodotus (iv. 159-205).
[498] This Tanais was usually called Jaxartes, now Sir, flowing into the sea of Aral.
[499] The Oxus, now called Jihoun or Amou, flows into the sea of Aral, but formerly flowed into the Caspian.
[500] Some think this town stood where Naksheh now is, and others think it was at Kesch.
[501] Cf. Xenophon, Anab., i. 5, 10.
[502] Curtius (vii. 24) follows the account of Aristobulus, and so does Diodorus (xvii. 83) in the main. Cf. Aelian (Varia Historia, xii. 37).