or ANGARI, in antiquity, denote public couriers, appointed for the carrying of messages. The ancient Persians, Budaeus observes, had their ἀγάριον δρόμους; which was a set of couriers on horseback, posted at certain places or stations, always in readiness to receive the dispatches from one, and forward them to another, with wonderful celerity, answering to what the moderns call postes, q. d. postes, as being posted at certain places or stages.—The angari were also called by the Persians afandos; by the Greeks ἀγαρίσται, on account of the long journeys they made in one day, which according to Suidas amounted not to less than 1500 stadia.