Simonides
Proper noun
Meaning
Simonides
(c. 556 BCE – 468 BCE) Ancient Greek lyric poet from the island of Ceos.
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Remember what Simonides said,-that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
Simonides calls painting silent poetry, and poetry speaking painting.
Bradshaw showed that the Codex Sinaiticus brought by Tischendorf from the Greek monastery of Mount Sinai was not a modern forgery or written by Simonides.
Henry Bradshaw, a British librarian known to both men, defended the Tischendorf find of the Sinaiticus, casting aside the accusations of Simonides.
Like Simonides, he followed the lyric tradition of coining compound adjectives – a tradition in which the poet was expected to be both innovative and tasteful – but the results are thought by some modern scholars to be uneven.
In his eponymous Platonic dialogue, Protagoras interprets a poem by Simonides, focusing on the use of words, their literal meaning, and the author's original intent.