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• Simonides, Pindar, and Bacchylides all composed them.

• Not Livy, or Sappho, or Simonides, the Greek lyric poet whom William Wordsworth invoked in his poem “September, 1819”:

• The first explanation has been supported by a saying of Simonides; and now Socrates has a mind to show that the resolution of justice into two unconnected precepts, which have no common principle, fails to satisfy the demands of dialectic.

• There follows a discussion on how to discuss such issues, and Protagoras starts a new line of conversation, this one dealing with the interpretation of a poem by Simonides that seems to deal with the acquisition and retention of virtue (338e–48a).

• Simonides of Ceos, in Ionia, was among the most versatile of Greek poets.

• The most notable of Kochanowski’s followers was Szymon Szymonowic (Simonides).

• Simonides, after the fall of the Peisistratids, moved to the court of the Scopad rulers in Thessaly.

• The richer and more famous were immortalized by lyric poets, such as Simonides, Bacchylides, and Pindar.

Use Simonides in a sentence.

• But it was Simonides, not Pindar, who wrote the poems of rejoicing at Greece’s victories and of mourning for its glorious dead.

• In 1978, when I was in my first year at Virginia, her penultimate novel, “The Praise Singer,” about the great lyric poet Simonides, was published.

• Of lesser stature than Archilochus were his successors, Semonides (often mistakenly identified with Simonides) of Amorgos and Hipponax of Ephesus.

• After aiding the starving people of Tarsus, Pericles is shipwrecked near Pentapolis, where he wins the hand of the beautiful Thaisa, daughter of King Simonides.

• She’s drawn to themes of desire and privation (she titled her study of Paul Celan and the ancient Greek poet Simonides of Ceos “The Economy of the Unlost”), and the urge to get away from “self.”

• Occasionally, Aphrodite was Ares’ legitimate wife, and by her he fathered Deimos, Phobos (who accompanied him into battle), Harmonia, and—as first told by Simonides in the 6th century bce—Eros, god of love.

• Occasionally a forger appears with a certain specious glamour like Constantine Simonides (1824–67), a Greek adventurer who varied his trade in perfectly genuine manuscripts with the sale of strange concoctions of his own.

• Substantial fragments of an elegiac poem on papyrus by the great poet Simonides were published as recently as 1992; the poem describes the run-up to the battle of Plataea and more or less explicitly compares Pausanias to Achilles, the Greek leader of the mythical Trojan War.

Simonides sentence examples

• By their side, and later, flourished the great poets who set words to music for choirs, Alcman, Arion, Stesichorus, Simonides, and Ibycus, who were followed at the close of the 5th century by Bacchylides and Pindar, in whom the tradition of the dithyrambic odes reached its highest development.

• But see the consequence:—Many a man who is ignorant of human nature has friends who are bad friends, and in that case he ought to do harm to them; and he has good enemies whom he ought to benefit; but, if so, we shall be saying the very opposite of that which we affirmed to be the meaning of Simonides.

• “must be allowed to be an exception, its Greek derivation being universally admitted, corresponding so exactly as it does in its rectangular form and compactness to the perfection of manhood, according to the views of Plato and Simonides; but any deviation from the simple expression, in which locality is indicated—as, for instance, ‘a genuine Bath’—decidedly breathes the Oriental spirit.”

• The historical epics do not survive, but among them were Persica, on the Persian Wars, by Choerilus of Samos (5th century bc); an epic on the deeds of Alexander the Great by Choerilus of Iasus (4th century bc); an epic on the deeds of Antiochus Soter (3rd century bc) by Simonides of Magnesia; and Thessalic History, Achaean History, and Messenian History by Rhianus of Crete (3rd century bc).