47. Justin (xli. 6) has left a short abridgment of the Greek
kings of Bactriana. To their industry I should ascribe the
new and extraordinary trade which transported the
merchandises of India into Europe by the Oxus, the Caspian,
the Cyrus, the Phasis, and the Euxine. The other ways, both
of the land and sea, were possessed by the Seleucides and
the Ptolemies. (See l'Esprit des Loix, 1. xxi.)