of Greek
Antiquities_, London, 1895, p. 386. On the relations, political and
commercial, between India and Egypt c. 72 B.C., under Ptolemy Auletes, see
the _Journal Asiatique_, 1863, p. 297.

[299] Sikandar, as the name still remains in northern India.

[300] _Harper's Classical Dict._, New York, 1897, Vol. I, p. 724; F. B.
Jevons, loc. cit., p. 389; J. C. Marshman, _Abridgment of the History of
India_, chaps. i and ii.

[301] Oppert, loc. cit., p. 11. It was at or near this place that the first
great Indian mathematician, [=A]ryabha[t.]a, was born in 476 A.D.

[302] Buehler, _Palaeographie_, p. 2, speaks of Greek coins of a period
anterior to Alexander, found in northern India. More complete information
may be found in _Indian Coins_, by E. J. Rapson, Strassburg, 1898, pp. 3-7.

[303] Oppert, loc. cit., p. 14; and to him is due other similar
information.

[304] J. Beloch, _Griechische Geschichte_, Vol. III, Strassburg, 1904, pp.
30-31.

[305] E.g., the denarius, the words for hour and minute ([Greek: hora,
lepton]), and possibly the signs of the zodiac. [R. Caldwell, _Comparative
Grammar of the Dravidian Languages_, London, 1856, p. 438.] On the probable
Chinese origin of the zodiac see Schlegel, loc. cit.

[306] Marie, Vol. II, p. 73; R. Caldwell, loc. cit.

[307] A. Cunningham, loc. cit., p. 50.

[308] C. A. J. Skeel, _Travel_, loc. cit., p. 14.

[309] _Inchiver_, from _inchi_, "the green root." [_Indian Antiquary_, Vol.
I, p. 352.]

[310] In China dating only from the second century A.D., however.

[311] The Italian _morra_.

[312] J. Bowring, _The Decimal System_, London, 1854, p. 2.

[313] H. A. Giles, lecture at Columbia University, March 12, 1902, on
"China and Ancient Greece."

[314] Giles, loc. cit.

[315] E.g., the names for grape, radish (_la-po_, [Greek: rhaphe]),
water-lily (_si-kua_, "west gourds"; [Greek: sikua], "gourds"), are much
alike. [Giles, loc. cit.]

[316] _Epistles_, I, 1, 45-46. On the Roman trade routes, see Beazley, loc.
cit., Vol. I, p. 179.

[317] _Am. Journ. of Archeol._, Vol. IV, p. 366.

[318] M. Perrot gives this conjectural restoration of his words: "Ad me ex
India regum legationes saepe missi sunt numquam antea visae apud quemquam
principem Romanorum." [M. Reinaud, "Relations politiques et commerciales de
l'empire romain avec l'Asie orientale," _Journ. Asiat._, Vol. I (6), p.
93.]

[319] Reinaud, loc. cit., p. 189. Florus, II, 34 (IV, 12), refers to it: