[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: "Seres etiam habitantesque sub ipso sole Indi, cum gemmis et margaritis elephantes quoque inter munera trahentes nihil magis quam longinquitatem viae imputabant." Horace shows his geographical knowledge by saying: "Not those who drink of the deep Danube shall now break the Julian edicts; not the Getae, not the Seres, nor the perfidious Persians, nor those born on the river Tanais." [_Odes_, Bk. IV, Ode 15, 21-24.] [320] "Qua virtutis moderationisque fama Indos etiam ac Scythas auditu modo cognitos pellexit ad amicitiam suam populique Romani ultro per legatos petendam." [Reinaud, loc. cit., p. 180.] [321] Reinaud, loc. cit., p. 180. [322] _Georgics_, II, 170-172. So Propertius (_Elegies_, III, 4): Arma deus Caesar dites meditatur ad Indos Et freta gemmiferi findere classe maris. "The divine Caesar meditated carrying arms against opulent India, and with his ships to cut the gem-bearing seas." [323] Heyd, loc. cit., Vol. I, p. 4. [324] Reinaud, loc. cit., p. 393.