Acestor or Acestor Sacas
(
Ἀκέστωρ), surnamed Sacas (
Σάκας), on account of his foreign origin, was a tragic poet at Athens, and a contemporary of Aristophanes.
He seems to have been either of Thracian or Mysian origin. (
Aristoph. Birds 31; Schol.
ad loc.; Vespae, 1216; Schol.
ad loc.; Phot. and Suid.
s. v. Σάκας: Welcker,
Die Griech. Tragöd. p. 1032.)
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