Monday, April 25, 2022
Speech from Scythians
Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers 1.8.101 (on Anacharsis; tr. R.D. Hicks):
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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.