ANGARI, or ANGARI, in Antiquity, public couriers, appointed for the carrying of messages. The ancient Persians, Budæus observes, had their angari druma, which was a set of couriers on horseback, posted at certain stages or distances, always in readiness to receive the dispatches from one, and forward them to another, with wonderful celerity, answering to what the moderns call posts (posti), as being posted at certain places or stages. The angari were also called by the Persians astanda; by the Greeks hazidromi, on account of the long journeys
they made in one day, which, according to Suidas, amounted to not less than 1500 stadia.