Consider the following statement We shall send you figs and the wine but in Greece the laws forbid a...........

Ancient and Medival History Mauryan and Post Maurayan

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Consider the following statement:

`We shall send you figs and the wine, but in Greece the laws forbid a sophist to be sold’. Who said this to whom?

Seleucus Nikator to Chandragupta Maurya

Antiochus I to Bindusara

Antigonus Gonatus to Asoka

Alexander to Bindusara

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Explanation:

2nd option is correct.
It is known from the Greek accounts that Bindusara requested the Syrian King Antiochus I Soter, who was the son of Seleukos Nikator, to buy and send to him sweet wine, dried figs and a learned philosopher. And, the Syrian king wrote back: “We shall send you the figs and the wine, but in Greece the laws forbid a sophist (a man of wisdom) to be sold”. He, however, sent an ambassador named Daimachus to the court of Bindusara.