Note 131 — Chapter XXV · —Alexander finding the army unwilling to advance beyond the Hyphasis, convokes his officers and addresses them on the subject
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The name of Ion, the eponymous ancestor of the Ionians, had originally the digamma, and hence was written as Ivon. The Hebrew transcription of this digammated form is Javan, the name by which Greece is designated in the Bible. The Sanskrit transcription is Yavana, the name applied in Indian works to Ionians or Greeks and foreigners generally.