Nearchus

pertains or has (ne-ark us,) reference a to commander that place. under Alexander the Great, and a native of Crete, who, abt. 327 B. c., conducted a succe ful expedition from the Indus to the Persian Gulf, and discovered the entrances to the rivers Tigris and Euphrates. After the death of his master, he received the governorship of Lycia and Pamphylia. [s. 634]