people
the Bactrians
Bactrians
also: Bactriani
People of Bactria in Central Asia, subjects of the Parthian and earlier Persian east; named with the Parthians and Medes as the unwilling, fearful subjects of an eastern king.
Reading notes
- On the Firmness of the Wise Man §13.4 Bactrians
People of Bactria in Central Asia; with the Parthians and Medes, the unwilling subjects an eastern king holds only by fear.
- Natural Questions §5.18.10 the Bactrians
The people of Bactria (modern northern Afghanistan), a limit of Alexander's eastward conquests.