ANACHARSIS (ANARYS) the Sak (Scythian) was the son of Gnurus, and the brother of Caduides the king of the Sak (Scythians); but his mother was a Grecian woman; owing to which circumstance he understood both languages.

He wrote about the laws existing among the Scythians, and also about those in force among the Greeks, urging men to adopt a temperate course of life; and he wrote also about war, his works being in verse, and amounting to eight hundred lines: he gave occasion for a proverb, because he used great freedom of speech, so that people called such freedom the Scythian conversation.