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SIMYLUS. SINON. 839
duction (prooemium), which is wanting in the but Maussacus (ad Hacepoc. 1. c.) has clearly shown
Greek edition, is printed separately in Iriarte, Ca- that LIu;v'Ac is the true reading, and the editors,
taloy. Bibl. IMIatrit. p. 182. The "Interpretation of from Reiske downwards, have adopted it. Athethe Enchiridion of Epictetus" (,ty ELes eis ro naeus (viii. p. 348) quotes from Theophrastus a'E7rLuciT ov eyXepti6iov) was first published in curious witticism aimed at Simylus by the musiGreek, at Venice, in 1528, 4to., and in a Latin cian Stratonious, the point of which can hardly be
translation, at Venice, in 1546, 1560, fol., and at given in English. (See Maussacus, 1. c.). The tragic
Basle in 1560 and 1568. It was next published actor has been confounded with the comic poet;
by Dan. Heinsius (Lugd. Batav. 1611); and lastly but Meineke observes (1. c.) that such a combinaby Job. Schweighiiuser, in Epicteteee Philosopliaee tion of professions is very improbable both in itself,
JlAonumenta, vol. iv. The notes on it in vol. iv. and on account of the express testimony of Plato,
pp. 175-496. [Ch. A. B.] that the same persons were never both tragic and
SIMUS (7aeos), or Simon, of Magnesia, a lyric comic actors. [P. S.]
poet, to whom is ascribed the invention of that SINATRUCES or SINTRICUS, a king of
sportive and licentious species of poetry, which Parthia. [ARSACES XI.]
was called from its character iXapT3la, and from SINIS or SINNIS (lvuts or iVslus), a son of
its author zgteitla. The time at which he lived Polypemon, Pemion or Poseidon by Sylea, the
is not stated. The chief followers of Simus in this daughter of Corinthus. He was surnamed acdescription of poetry were LYsIs and MAGUS; cording to some Pityocamptes, and according to
and they had many imitators, who were called others Procrustes. He dwelt on the isthmus of
usqToi, Avo-trTolf, and Mayr5oi. (Strab. xiv. Corinth as a robber, destroying the travellers
p. 648, a.; Ath. xiv. p. 620, d.; Fabric. Bibl. whom he had conquered, by fastening them to the
Graec. vol. ii. p. 15]; Bode, GCesch. d. Hellen. top of a fir-tree, which he curbed, and then let
Dichtk. vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 469.) [P. S.] spring up again. He himself was killed in this
SIMUS, artists. 1. A painter, of second-rate manner by Theseus (Apollod. iii. 16. ~ 2; Plut.
merit, to whom Pliny ascribes the following works: Thes. 8; Paus. ii. 1. ~ 3, &c.; Diod. iv..59;
a youth resting in a fuller's workshop; a person Eurip. Hippol. 977; Ov. Met. vii. 440, &c.;
celebrating the festival called Quinquatrus; and an Hygin. Fab. 38; Schol. Pined. Hypot/h. Isth17.).
excellent picture of Nemesis. (Plin. H. N. xxxv. When Theseus had accomplished this, he caused
11. s. 40. ~ 39). himself to be purified by Phytalus at the altar of
2. A statuary of Salamis, the son of Themisto- Zeus Meilichios, because Theseus himself was
crates, whose name is known to us by two extant related to Sinis (Paus. i. 37. ~ 3), or according
inscriptions. The one of these is upon a base in to others, he propitiated the spirit of Sinis by
the Louvre, brought from Thera, which, from the instituting in his honour the Isthmiau games
marks upon it, evidently supported a bronze statue; (Schol. Pinrd. 1. c.; Plut. Thes. 25; Welcker,
and we learn from the inscription that the statue, 2Nachtrag, p. 133). The name is connected with
which was probably that of some private person, aoivo/ak, expressing the manner in which he tore
was dedicated to Dionysus; not, as Sillig states, his victims to pieces. [L. S.]
a statue of Dionysus. (Clarac, No. 686; Osann, SINNACES, one of the leading nobles in ParSylloye, p. 365, No. xxvi.; Bdckh, C. I. No. thia, dissatisfied with the reigning monarch, Arta2465; R. Rochette, Lettre a M. Schorn, p. 402.) banus III. (Arsaces XIX.), sent an embassy to
The other inscription, in which this artist is men- Rome in 4. D. 35, in conjunction with the eunuch
tioned, is published by R. Rochette (p. 403), from Abdus, praying Tiberius to send to Parthia one of
a copy furnished by Ross in a letter from Athens, the sons of Phraates IV. to become their king.
dated Dec. 23, 1843. It is on a base found in Sinnaces subsequently took an active part in the
Rhodes, which supported the statue of a certain wars against Artabanus. (Tac. Ann. vi. 31, 32,
Hippomachus, the son of Stratippus, who had dis- 36, 37.) [ARSACES XIX.]
charged the offices of agonothetes and choragus; the SINOE (,vo'?n), an Arcadian nymph, brought
statue was dedicated to the gods by Smicythus of up the god Pan, who derived from her the surname
Athens. From the nature of this monument and Sinoeis. (Paus. viii. 30. ~ 2.) [L. S.]
the form of both inscriptions, R. Rochette infers SINON (.tsvwv), a son of Aesimus, or acthat Simus belonged to the Alexandrian period, cording to Virgil (Aen. ii. 79) of Sisyphus, and a
which was marked by the erection of such honorific grandson of Autolycus, was a relation of Odysseus,
statues. [P. S.] and is described in later poems as having accomSI'MYLUS (ivhAos). 1. An Athenian comic panied his kinsman to Troy (Tzetz. ad Lycoph.
poet of the middle comedy, who is known by an 344; Heyne, Excurs. iv. ad Virg. Aen. ii.). Acextant inscription to have exhibited a play in the cording to these traditions, he allowed himself to
archonship of Diotimus, 01. 106. 2, B. c. 354. be taken prisoner by the Trojans, after he had
(Bickh, C. I. vol. i. p. 353). Of the title of the mutilated himself in such a manner as to make
play in the inscription, only the last three letters, them believe that he had been ill-treated by
rag, remain; Bickh conjectures that it was'Eqe- the Greeks. He told the Trojans that he was
aot. His MeyapuKtc is cited by Pollux (x. 42), hated by Odysseus, and had been selected by him
and there are a few other references to him. to be sacrificed, because Apollo had ordered a
(Meineke, Frag. Corn. Graec. vol. i. pp. 424, 425; human sacrifice to be offered, that the Greeks
Editio Minor, Addenda ad p. 794, p. xviii.) might safely depart from the coast of Troy, and
2. An inferior tragic actor in the time of De- added that he had escaped death by flight. When
mosthenes, who charges Aeschines with having he was asked what was the purport of the wooden
hired himself to Simylus and Socrates, as their horse, he told them that it had been constructed
tritagonist. (Denosth. de Coron. p. 314, comp. as an atonement for the Palladium which had
Anon. Vit. Aeschl.; Harpocrat. and Suid. s. v.). been carried off, and that if the Trojans ventured
The old editions of Demosthenes have >m-UjKP, to destroy it, their kingdom should fall, but that
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