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ANACHARSIS , a Scythian philosopher, who lived about 600 B.C. He was the son of Gnurus, See also:chief of a nomadic tribe of the Euxine shores, and a See also:Greek woman. Instructed in the Greek See also:language by his See also:mother, he prevailed upon the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king to entrust him with an See also:embassy to See also:Athens about 589 B.C. He became acquainted with See also:Solon, from whom he rapidly acquired a know-ledge of the See also:wisdom and learning of See also:Greece, and by whose See also:influence he was introduced to the See also:principal persons in Athens. He was the first stranger who received the privileges of citizenship. He was reckoned one of the Seven Sages, and it is said that he was initiated into the Eleusinian mysteries. After he had resided several years at Athens, he travelled through different countries in quest of knowledge, and returned See also:home filled with the See also:desire of instructing his countrymen in the See also:laws and the See also:religion of the Greeks. According to See also:Herodotus he was killed by his See also:brother Saulius while he was performing See also:sacrifice to the goddess See also:Cybele. It was he who compared laws to See also:spiders' webs, which catch small flies and allow bigger ones to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape. His See also:simple and forcible mode of expressing himself gave See also:birth to the proverbial expression " Scythian eloquence," but his epigrams are as unauthentic as the letters which are often attributed to him. According to See also:Strabo he was the first to invent an See also:anchor with two flukes. See also:Barthelemy borrows his name as the See also:title for his Anacharsis. en Grece.
Herodotus iv. 76; See also:Lucian, Scytha; See also:Cicero, Tusc. Disp. v. 32; Diog. Laert. i.
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