Simonides

1. Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur Plutarch 1 authority · 1 neutral 2 citations

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   Simonides's saying is reported and applied analogically without being explicitly endorsed or disputed as a proposition in itself.

   And since, to use Simonides’s expression, it is not for persons of a narrow fortune, but for gentlemen of estates, to keep a good stable of horses;

2. Quomodo quis suos in virtute sentiat profectus Plutarch 2 endorsed 2 citations

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   Simonides' saying is directly reported and endorsed as the governing model for the advice on profitable reading that follows.

   and indeed such a one is (as Simonides says) like a little sucking foal running by the mother’s side, and desires to be incorporated into the very same nature with a good man.

3. Consolatio ad Apollonium Plutarch 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

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   Simonides is explicitly named three times, both as a gnomic speaker and as the source of quoted verses on the brevity and insignificance of life.

   for according to Simonides, thousands and millions of years are but as a point to what is infinite, or rather the smallest part of that point.

4. De capienda ex inimicis utilitate Plutarch 1 neutral 1 citation

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   Simonides's proverb is reported directly and used to introduce the discussion of envy's natural presence in human character.

   Simonides was wont to say that there was no lark without its crest;

5. De tuenda sanitate praecepta Plutarch 1 endorsed 1 citation

   de tuenda sanitate praecepta

   Simonides's saying is directly cited and applied approvingly to the point about refraining from indulgent food.

   Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken;

6. Dion Plutarch 1 authority 1 citation

   chapter 1

   Simonides's saying is invoked by name as the authoritative model for the analogy that opens and justifies the whole proem.

   If it be true, then, O Sossius Senecio, as Simonides says, that Ilium is not wroth with the Corinthians for coming up against her with the Achaeans, because the Trojans also had Glaucus, who sprang from Corinth, as a zealous ally, so it is likely that neither Romans nor Greeks will quarrel with the Academy, since they fare alike in this treatise containing the lives of Dion and Brutus, for Dion wa …

7. Theseus Plutarch 1 neutral 1 citation

   chapter 17

   Cited for a variant detail about the sail color and the pilot's name, presented as one report among differing accounts.

   Simonides, however, says that the sail given by Aegeus was not white, but a scarlet sail dyed with the tender flower of luxuriant holm-oak, and that he made this a token of their safety.

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