BACTRUS
BACTRUS (
Βάκτρος,
Strab. xi. p.516;
Curt. 7.4.31;
Polyaen. 7.7;
Lucan 3.267;
Plin. Nat. 6.16), the river on which Bactra, the capital town of Bactriana, was situated.
It is supposed to be represented by the present
Dakash. Harduin, in commenting on the words of Pliny (
6.16), “Bactri, quorum oppidum Zariaspe, quod posted Bactrum a flumine appellatum est,” incloses within a parenthesis the words “quod postea Bactrum,” leaving the inference that the river was called Zariaspe. Ptolemy does not mention the river at all. [BACTRA; BACTRIANA.]
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