Monday, April 25, 2022

 

Speech from Scythians

Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers 1.8.101 (on Anacharsis; tr. R.D. Hicks):
So outspoken was he that he furnished occasion for a proverb, "To talk like a Scythian."

παρέσχε δὲ καὶ ἀφορμὴν παροιμίας διὰ τὸ παρρησιαστὴς εἶναι, τὴν ἀπὸ Σκυθῶν ῥῆσιν.



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