Eduard Meyer and Thomas William Rhys Davids

“ We possess many of these coins, which follow the Indian standard and are artistically degenerate as compared with the earlier Graeco-Bactrian and Graeco-Indian coins, with bilingual legends (Greek and Kharoshti, see Bactria) . Apollodotus, who must have been the earlier of the two kings, bears the titles Soter, Philopator, and “Great King”; Menander, who must have reigned a long time, as his portrait is young on some coins and old on others, calls himself Soter and “Just” (δίκαιος) . Their reigns may be placed about 140–80 B.C. Menander appears in Indian traditions as Milinda ”

“ The questions chosen are just those which would appeal most strongly to the intellectual taste of the India of that age. And the style of the book is very attractive. Each particular point is kept within easy limits of space, and is treated in a popular way. ”

“ Besides Apollodotus and Menander, we know from the coins a great many other Greek kings of western India, among whom two with the name of Straton are most conspicuous. The last of them, with degenerate coins seems to have been Hermaeus Soter. ”