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CHRISTOPHER BARON,

University of Notre Dame

In providing a list of the provinces (archai or SATRAPIES, 3.89.1) into which DARIUS I divided the Persian Empire, Herodotus states (3.92.2) that the Aeglians were the limit of the twelfth administrative district (νομός, nome) which consisted of the BACTRIANS. The Aeglians’ exact location is unknown, nor is it clear in which direction the limit they placed on the Bactrians lies. Modern editors print the reading Αἰγλῶν (“of the Aeglians”); a different manuscript family reads Λιγδῶν (“of the Ligdians,” equally unknown), which some scholars connect with the LIGYANS mentioned (7.72) in the CATALOGUE of XERXES’ invasion force (Dan 2013, 114). In the original Greek, these names could have been easily mistaken: ΑΙΓΛΩΝ, ΛΙΓΔΩΝ, ΛΙΓ⊖ΩΝ.

SEE ALSO: Manuscripts; Persia