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tiana, p. 4,53.) All]atius identifies the writer with 475, and made one -of the horses and one of the
the " Simon lfieromonachus ex ordine Praedi- charioteers, in the group which was dedicated at
catorsim," mentioned by Georgius Trapezuntius, Olympia by Phormis, the contemporary of Gelon
or George of Trebizond [GEORGIUS, literary and and Hieron; the other horse and charioteer were
ecclesiastical, No. 48], as being a native of Crete, made by DIONYSIUS of Argos (Paus. v. 27. ~ 1).
ardent for the divine doctrines (sc. those of the Pliny states that he made a dog and an archer in
WesternChurch), who went to Rome, and obtained bronze. (H. N. xxxiv. 8. s. 19. ~ 33.) He is also
of the Pope the office of Inquisitor and Judge of mentioned by Diogenes Laertius (ii. 123).
Heretics in Crete (Georg. Trapezunt. ad Cretenses To these passages should probably be added two
Epistola, apud Allat. Graecia Orthodoxa, vol. i. others, in which the name of Simon is concealed by
p. 537). Allatius supposes that he got his name erroneous readings. Clemens Alexandrinus (ProConstantinopolitanus from the circumstance of his trept. p. 31, Sylburg) mentions, on the authority of
family having belonged to that city, just as Geor- Polemon, a statue of Dionysus Morychus, at
gius, who mentions him, was called Trapezuntius, Athens, made of the soft stone called pEXAET1'7S,
for a similar reason. Allatius (De Sihzeon. p. 202) as the work of Siconz, the son of Eupalamuts; and
further identifies him with the Simon Iattmaeus the same statue is ascribed by Zenobius (v. 13) to
(Possevino, in his Appairatus Sacer, misquotes the Simamias, the son of Eupaolzlus. We know nothing
name as Iacumaeus, and Allatius (I. c.) further either of Sicon or of Sinlmias; but in the former
misquotes it as Tacumaeus) mentioned by Sixtus passage nothing can be simpler than the correction
of Sena (Bibliotk. Sancta, lib. iv.), as having been of,lqKhvcos into ipzo'yos, and in the latter it is
first bishop of Gyracium, and afterwards arch- obvious how easily the two names may have been
bishop of Thebes, and as having flourished about confounded, each beginning with the syllable IZ.,
A. D. 1400. It is to be observed that Sixtus says especially if, as is frequently the case in old MSS,
Simon Iatumaeus was born at Constantinople; that syllable only was written as an abbreviation
but perhaps Sixtus was misled by the epithet for:ZViwvos. These corrections are supported by
Constantinopolitanus. He speaks of him as versed the authority of Muller (Aegin. 104) and Thiersch
in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew literature, and as (Epochen, p. 127), and no sound critic will hesitate
an assiduous student of the Bible: and states that to prefer them to Sillig's method of correcting the
he prepared a revision of the Greek text of the passage of Clement from that of Zenobius, and
New Testament; translated it most faithfully, reading Z:uiqtxov in both.
word for word (verbum de verbo) into Hebrew Thiersch supposes Simon, the son of Eupalamus,
and into Latin; and formed a triglott Testament, to have lived at an earlier period than Simon of
by arranging the Greek text and the two versions Aegina, and to have been one of the Attic Daedain three parallel columns on the same page, so that lids. This is possible, but by no means necessary;
line corresponded to line, and word to word. for although the manner in which the statue of
(Sixtus Senens. 1. c.) Allatius (I. c. p. 203) says Dionysus is mentioned, and the significant name
he had read some poems addressed to Joannes E Epalainus concur to place Simon with the so-called
Cantacuzenus, with the inscription 1isuwvos apXi- Daedalian, or archaic period of art, yet that period
ErrcrKerou ~EWlh'v, "Simonis Archiepiscopi The- comes down so far as to include the age immebarum." Of these poems he quotes a few lines: diately before that of Pheidias, and Onatas, the
from which they appear to have been addressed to contemporary of Simon of Aegina, is expressly
Cantacuzenus about the time of his abdication, in mentioned as belonging to it. [DAEDALvS.
the middle of the fourteenth century. If, there- ONATAS.] [P. S.]
fore, Simon flourished, as Sixtus of Sena states, SIMO'NIDES (4u1oAvi8s7S), literary. I. Of
in A. D. 1400, he must have attained a con- Samos, or, as he is more usually designated, of
siderable age. Cave inclines to the opinion that Amorgos, was the second, both in time and in
the Simon who wrote the three treatises on the reputation, of the three principal iambic poets of the
Holy Spirit was a distinct person from the Simon early period of Greek literature, namely, ArchiloJacumaeus (he adds'alias Sacumaeus'), of Sixtus chus, Simonides, and Hipponax (Proclns, Chrestosm.
of Sena. He thinks that if they were the same, 7; Lucian. Pseudol. 2). The chief information
the date given by Sixtus, A. nD. 1400, is incorrect. which we have respecting him is contained in two
(Allatius, I. c.; Fabricius, Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. articles of Suidas (s. vv. ZAlwvi81gs, Zlh/t/as; the
pp. 301, 334; Cave, Hist. Lilt. ad ann. 1276 and greater part of the latter article is obviously mis1400, vol. ii. p. 32-2; and Appendix, p. 87, ed. placed, and really refers to Simlonides); from
Oxford, 1740-1743.) which we learn that his father's name was Crines,
23. THRENI SCRIPTOR. Harpocration (Lexwcon, and that he was originally a native of Samos,
s. v. Tae valt), mentions Simon as the author of whence, by a curious parallel to the history of
a poem entitled or described as Els Av(uiriaXov Archilochus, he led a colony to the neighbouring'dr'EpeTrpiEa ~p,,voS, In Lysi7iachau Ereth'iensem island of Amorgos, one of the Cyclades or Sporades,
Tlreni2s. It is probable that Simon is a mistake where lie founded three cities, Minloa, Aegialus,
for Simonides. [SIAsoNIDES.] (Allat. De Sinmeon. and Arcesine, in the first of which he fixed his
Scriptis, p.'200.) [J. C. M.] own abode. (Comp. Strab. x. p. 487, Steph. Byz.
S1MON (l,uawv), a physician of Magnesia, who s. v.'Alcopyois; Tzetz. Chil. xii. 52.) He is geneis mentioned by Herophilus (ap. Soran. De Arte rally said to have been contemporary with ArchiObs1tetr. p. 100), and who lived, therefore, in or lochus; and the date assigned to him by the chrobefore the fourth century B. c. He is probably the nographers is 01. 29. 1 or 3, B. C. 666 or 66same person who is Inentionud by Diogenes Lair- (Syncell. p. 213; Hieronym. ap. A. Maium,
tius (ii. 123), and said by him to have lived in Script. Vet. vol. viii. p. 333; Cleln. Alex. Stromz.
the time of Seleucus Nicanor. [W.A.G.] vol. i. p. 333; Cyril. c. Julian. vol. i. p. 12).
SIMON (/u' wv), of Aegina, a celebrated sta- The statement of Sutidas that lie flourished 490
tuary in bronze, who flourished about 01. 76, B. C. years after the Trojan War, would, acccrdinlg to