SIMON.
* 1.1 SIMON was an Athenian, a leather-dresser. Socrates coming to his shop, and disputing there, he committed to writing all that he remembred thereof; whence his dialogues were called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. They were three and thirty, all in one vo∣lume: of Gods, of good, of honest, what is honest. Of just, the first, the 2d. Ofvirtue, that it cannot be taught. Of fortitude, the first, second, third. Of law, of Popularity, of honour, of Poetry, of health, of love, of Philosophy, of knowledge, of musick, of Poetry; what is honest. Of doctrine, of disputation, of judgement, of that which is, of number, of diligence, of la∣bour, of avarice, of boasting, of honesty, or according to o∣thers, of Counsel, of discourse, of expedients, of doing ill. He is reported the first that used the Socratick discourses. Pericles promising that if hee would come to him, he should want no∣thing, hee answered, that he would not sell his freedom of speech. There is extant amongst the Socratick Epistles, this un∣der his name, as in answer to Aristippus.