"Roman historian Justin names a "Demetrius, king of the Indians", [2] who was an enemy of Eucratides the Great. Justin's Demetrius beleaguered the warlike Eucratides with an army of 60,000 men against the latter's garrison of 300,"

So a hellene with 300 men goes up against hundreds of thousands of easterners and manages to embarrass them...I'm seeing some definite shades of the Thermopylae legend. -M