Ἀνάχαρσις

The son of Gnouros¹ and of a Greek mother, a Scythian, a philosopher, brother of Kadui[d]as the king of Scythia.² He wrote Customs of the Scythians in verses, Concerning the simplicity of those things pertaining to human life, all in eight hundred verses.³ He discovered the anchor and the potter's wheel.⁴ He lived in the time of Croesus.⁵ And he died performing Greek rites in Scythia, when his brother was plotting against him: according to some he [lived] into extreme old age and almost up to one hundred years old.