-- Mommsen, vol.iv.p.

147.
(8) Juba was of supposed collateral descent from Hannibal.
(Haskins, quoting "The Scholiast.") (9) Confusing the Red Sea with the Persian Gulf.
(10) Balkh of modern times.

Bactria was one of the kingdoms established by the successors of Alexander the Great.

It was, however, subdued by the Parthians about the middle of the third century B.C.
(11) Dion could not believe it possible that Pompeius ever contemplated taking refuge in Parthia, but Plutarch states it as a fact; and says that it was Theophanes of Lesbos who dissuaded him from doing so.

("Pompeius", 76).