An achars is

, a Scythian philosopher, 592 B.C., who, on account of his wisdom, temperance, and extensive knowledge, has been called one of the seven wise men. Like his countrymen, he made use of a cart instead of a house. He was wont to compare laws to cobwebs, which can stop only small flies, and are unable to resist the superior force of large insects. When he returned to Scythia from Athens, where he had spent some time in study, and in the friendship of Solon, he attempted to introduce there the laws of the A then i ans, which so irritated his brother, who was then on the throne, that he killed him with an arrow. An achars is has rendered himself famous among the ancients by his writings, and his poems on war, the laws of Scythia, . Two of his letters to Crœsus and Hanno are still extant. Later authors have attributed to him the invention of tinder, of anchors, and of the potter’s wheel. The name of An achars is is become very familiar to modern ears, by that elegant, valuable, and truly cla ical work of Barthelemi, called the travels of An achars is. Hero dot us , bk. 4 , chs. 56, 47, & 48.— Plutarch , Quæstiones Convivales .— Cicero , Tusculanæ Dis put at i ones , bk. 5 , ch. 32 .— Strabo , bk. 7 .