Sacas
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
cupbearer · miserable scoundrel · this fellow
in the texts
Birds
A figure mocked as a non-citizen desperate for citizenship, used by Euelpides as a contrast to his and Pisthetaerus's voluntary flight from Athens.
Yes, spectators, our madness is quite different from that of Sacas.
Cyropaedia
A handsome cupbearer and gatekeeper at Astyages' court, initially resented by Cyrus but later fond of him.
And Astyages replied with a jest:
and the rest, that you were their sovereign.
And how, pray, said he, did you discover that, my son?