Bactrus
Βάκτρος
Bactrus (Βάκτρος, Strab. xi. p.516; Curt. 7.4.31; Polyaen. 7.7; Lucan 3.267; Plin. Nat. 6.16), the river on which Bactra, the capital town of Bactriana, was situated. It is supposed to be represented by the present Dakash. Harduin, in commenting on the words of Pliny (6.16), Bactri, quorum oppidum Zariaspe, quod posted Bactrum a flumine appellatum est,
incloses within a parenthesis the words quod postea Bactrum,
leaving the inference that the river was called Zariaspe. Ptolemy does not mention the river at all. [BACTRA; BACTRIANA.]
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.