A proper name. [sc. That of] a poet of tragedy.[1] Also [attested are] 'Sakai', a Thracian tribe.[2] Aristophanes [writes]: "we are sick with the opposite disease from Sakas". Akestor was called this because he was a foreigner.[3] The same Aristophanes [writes]: "for he, though he is not a citizen, forces his way in; but we, honored for our tribe and clan, citizens among citizens, fly away out of our homeland without anyone chasing us."[4]
[Note] that Ammonios, an Alexandrian philosopher, the one surnamed Sakkas, became a pagan although he had Christian parents, as Porphyry says.[5]