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    Anacharsis

    historical figure · 13 works · 18 mentions · 35 anchored passages

    Anacharsis the Scythian · he

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    Anacharsis the Scythian5 mentions

    Stromata (Greek) · Tusculan Disputations (Latin) · Orations (Greek) · Republic (Greek)

    As for the seventh, some say he was Periander the Corinthian, some Anacharsis the Scythian, and some Epimenides the Cretan — whom the Apostle Paul mentions in the Epistle to Titus, saying thus:
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    in the texts

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    Scythian philosopher praised as surpassing many Greeks and remembered for pointed sayings.

    Anacharsis too was a Scythian, and he is recorded as surpassing many of the philosophers among the Greeks.
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    And if anyone disparages the barbarian tongue — "To me," says Anacharsis, "all the Greeks speak Scythian.
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    As for the seventh, some say he was Periander the Corinthian, some Anacharsis the Scythian, and some Epimenides the Cretan — whom the Apostle Paul mentions in the Epistle to Titus, saying thus:
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    Vitae philosophorumImperial · Greek

    Scythian sage figure involved in the oracle-question episode and the disputed sage lists.

    To these are added Anacharsis the Scythian, Myson of Chen, Pherecydes of Syros, Epimenides the Cretan;
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    and it was given in reply to a question put by Anacharsis.
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    Ephorus substitutes Anacharsis for Myson;
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    The HistoriesClassical · Greek

    A Scythian named as the sole individual exception, along with the Scythian nation generally, to Herodotus' judgment that the Pontic lands produce no notable men.

    For we cannot show that any nation within the region of the Pontus has any cleverness, nor do we know of (overlooking the Scythian nation and Anacharsis) any notable man born there.
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    namely, that Anacharsis had been sent by the king of Scythia and had been a student of the ways of Hellas, and after his return told the king who sent him that all Greeks were keen for every kind of learning, except the Lacedaemonians;
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    For when Anacharsis was coming back to the Scythian country after having seen much of the world in his travels and given many examples of his wisdom, he sailed through the Hellespont and put in at Cyzicus;
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    Septem sapientium conviviumImperial · Greek

    A Scythian sage among the assembled guests, noted for his lack of a fixed house, his wit about Scythian customs, and his views on true (inward) happiness.

    they were guided thither through a porch, in which Anacharsis sat, and there was a certain young lady with him arranging his hair.
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    Ardalus asked a second question, whether the Scythians had any Gods among them.
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    Why not, quoth Anacharsis, when there is a reward promised to the hardest drinker?
    septem sapientium convivium

    Nicomachean EthicsClassical · Greek

    Figure credited with the maxim 'Play in order that you may work,' invoked to show that amusement is a means to further activity, not an end.

    Anacharsis’s motto, Play in order that you may work, is felt to be the right rule.
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    Tusculan DisputationsHellenistic · Latin

    Scythian philosopher who lived simply and counted money for nothing

    Or could Anacharsis the Scythian count money for nothing, and shall our own philosophers not be able to do it?
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    OrationsImperial · Greek

    A legendary wise Scythian who visited Greece to observe its customs, remembered for his witty remark about the gymnasium's 'madness.'

    Consider lest these speak more truly about you than they say Anacharsis the Scythian spoke about the Greeks — for he seemed to be one of the wise, and came to Greece, I think, to view the customs and the men.
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    Plainly that of folly;
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    RepublicClassical · Greek

    Scythian sage credited with practical inventions.

    Well, then, as might be expected of a man wise in practical affairs, are many and ingenious inventions for the arts and business of life reported of Homer as they are of Thales the Milesian and Anacharsis the Scythian?
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    Quomodo quis suos in virtute sentiat profectusImperial · Greek

    Legendary Scythian sage whose saying about the Greeks and money is applied by analogy to students who collect philosophical sentences without deriving benefit from them.

    These (as Anacharsis said of the Grecians, that he saw no occasion they had for money, but only to count and tell it over) have nothing at all to do, but go about singing and repeating what they have collected into commonplace books, without any other benefit or satisfaction from their labors.
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    SolonImperial · Greek

    Scythian visitor renowned for wit who befriended Solon and criticized the effectiveness of written law.

    Anacharsis came to Athens, knocked at Solon’s door, and said that he was a stranger who had come to make ties of friendship and hospitality with him.
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    Anacharsis, accordingly, on learning what Solon was about, laughed at him for thinking that he could check the injustice and rapacity of the citizens by written laws, which were just like spiders’ webs;
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    It was Anacharsis, too, who said, after attending a session of the assembly, that he was amazed to find that among the Greeks, the wise men pleaded causes, but the fools decided them.
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    Letters to LuciliusImperial · Latin

    Scythian sage credited by Posidonius with inventing the potter's wheel, a claim Seneca disputes given Homer's earlier mention of it.

    "Anacharsis," he says, "invented the potter's wheel, by whose turning vessels are shaped.
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    ApologeticumLate Antiquity · Latin

    Scythian sage invoked as an example of condemning ignorant judges of the wise.

    How much more would Anacharsis have branded these men — the unwise judging the wise — than he branded the unmusical judging the musical!
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    De PallioLate Antiquity · Latin

    Scythian prince said to have renounced kingship for philosophy.

    Did Anacharsis change otherwise, when he preferred philosophy to the kingdom of Scythia?
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