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 276 GRECIAN ARCHITECTURE. Pakt I. Most probably the latter, though we know so little about them that it is difficult to speak with precision on such a subject^ 1 The circumstance of Asoka, the, Buddhist kinp; of India B.C. 250, having formed an alHance with Megas of Cyrene for the sufcor of his co-religionists in the dominions of the latter, points to such a conclusion, even if nothing else (lirl. — "Journal Asiatic Society of Ben- gal," vii. p. 261; J. R. A. S. xii. p. 223 et seq