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EUTHYDEMUS , a native of See also: Magnesia, who overturned the dynasty of See also: Diodotus of See also: Bactria, and became See also: king of Bactria about 230 B.C
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(Polyb. xi
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34;
See also: Strabo xi
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515 wrongly makes him the first king)
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In 208 he was attacked by See also: Antiochus the See also: Great, whom he tried in vain to resist on the shores of the See also: river See also: Arius, the See also: modern Herirud (Polyb. x
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49)
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The war lasted three years, and was on the whole fortunate for Antiochus
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But he saw that he was not able to subdue Bactria and Sogdiana, and so in 206 concluded a See also: peace with Euthydemus, through the See also: mediation of his son See also: Demetrius, in which he recognized him as king (Polyb. xi
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34)
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Soon afterwards Demetrius (q.v.) began the See also: conquest of See also: India
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There exist many coins of Euthydemus; those on which he is called See also: god are struck by the later king See also: Agathocles
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Other coins with the name Euthydemus, which show a youthful face, are presumably those of Euthydemus II., who cannot have ruled long and was probably a son of Demetrius
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