Some of the details are, no doubt, drawn from the later chapters of Ezekiel, but the difference between the two writers is plain.
The instances and items cited in the preceding paragraphs lie within the limits of the Greek world and of the Roman Empire.

We might perhaps wish to pursue our speculations and ask whether this vigorous system influenced foreign lands, and whether the Macedonian army carried the town-plan of their age, in more or less perfect form, as far as their conquests reached.

Alexander settled many soldiers in lands which were to form his eastern and north-eastern frontiers, as if against the central-asiatic nomads.

Merv and Herat, Khokand and Kandahar,[42] have been thought--and, it seems, thought with some reason--to date from the Macedonian age and in their first period to have borne the name Alexandria.

But no Aurel Stein has as yet uncovered their ruins, and speculation about them is mere speculation.
[42] See p.