The son of Gnouros[1] 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.