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
Incorrect AnswerAntiochus I to Bindusara
Correct AnswerAntigonus Gonatus to Asoka
Incorrect AnswerAlexander to Bindusara
Incorrect AnswerExplanation:
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.
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By: Abhipedia