[400] The Queen of Mazaga, capital of the Assakenians. See [Note D].
[401] The rock Aornos, identified with Mount Mahaban. See [Note F].
[402] The Adrestae are the Adraïstai of Arrian. See Note on that author, [p. 116]. The Gesteani seem to be the Kathaians. The Praesidae must be the Prasians (though Saint-Martin would identify them with the Praesti of Curtius), and the Gangaridae the people of Lower Bengal.
[403] The river reached was the Hyphasis. How Justin came to call it the Cuphites it is difficult to understand. Can he have had in his recollection the Kâbul river, called sometimes by the classical writers the Kuphes, with Kuphet as the stem for the oblique cases, and mistaken it for the river which arrested Alexander’s progress? Like Plutarch, he erroneously supposes that the Macedonian army was confronted with a great host encamped on the opposite bank of the river.
[404] Hydaspes he should have said.
[405] For the identification of this people, see [Note Ff].
[406] The Silei are probably the Sibi. See [Note Ee].
[407] By the Ambri must be meant the Malli, and by the Sigambri the Oxydrakai. The text must be corrupt.
[408] This is supposed to be a corrupt reading for Ambiregis, in which case Ambi is a mistake for Sambi. We know that the incident referred to happened in the dominions of this king. In Orosius (iii. 19) the name is transcribed as Ambiraren.
[409] Nothing is known of this city, unless it be, as Cunningham thinks, the Barbari of Ptolemy, and the Barbarike Emporium of the author of the Periplûs. See his Anc. Geog. p. 295.