Note 386 — FIRST SECTION. (continued 3)

In Anacharsid. I. ch. 8. note 4. The question here is solely of Greek customs (ἑλληνίζειν, βιοῦν ἤθεσιν Ἑλληνικοῖς—to Greecize, to live after Greek fashions), without any evil implication, or of Greek mysteries (τελετὰς Ἑλληνικὰς διατελοῦντα carrying out Greek rites). How else could the words, γλώσσης, γαστρὸς, αἰδοίων κρατεῖν (to be master of tongue, of belly, of members) have been used as a motto on the pedestals of statues of Anacharsis, and how could he himself have written to Croesus, that after he had learnt the customs of the Greeks, ἀπόχρη με ἐπανήκειν ἐς Σκύθας ἄνδρα ἀμείνονα (I was bound to return to the Scythians a better man). For the rest Anacharsis is called the son of Gnurus and brother of the Scythian king Caduidas, who stabbed him on a hunting party.