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Headword:
*simwni/dhs
Adler number: sigma,445
Translated headword: Simonides
Vetting Status: high
Translation: This man lived under the emperor Jovian, [and was] very well known to all because of his philosophy.
Greek Original:*simwni/dhs: ou(=tos h)=n e)pi\ *)iobianou= tou= basile/ws, dia\ filosofi/an pa=sin e)pishmo/tatos.
Notes:
The entry (for which cf.[
Eunapius] fr.40 FHG; Blockley,
Eunapius fr. 39.[6]) is in error. The reference is to
Simonides, the young philosopher whose bravery when faced with death by burning, after the trial of
Theodorus, is lovingly decribed by
Ammianus Marcellinus, 29.1.37-40. The emperor was Valens, not Jovian (briefly emperor, 363-4).
Simonides may have been a neo-Platonist, as were
Maximus and Hilarius, also executed at the time.
Blockley, R.C. The Fragmentary Classicising Historians of the Later Roman Empire: Eunapius, Olympiodorus, Priscus and Malchus. Vol. II. Liverpool: Francis Cairns, 1983.
Keywords: biography; chronology; ethics; historiography; philosophy
Translated by: Robert Dyer on 28 May 2000@11:54:57.
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