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.
But said Astyages, are you not going to give any to Sacas, my cupbearer, whom I like best of all?
for he would not go in unless he saw that it was a proper time, and he asked Sacas by all means to let him know when it was convenient.
Now Sacas, it seems, chanced to be a handsome fellow who had the office of introducing to Astyages those who had business with him and of keeping out those whom he thought it not expedient to admit.