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Headword:
*si/mwn
Adler number: sigma,447
Translated headword: Simon
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Genitive]
*si/mwnos. A proper name.[1]
Also a proverb: "more rapacious than
Simon".
Aristophanes [says that] when they see
Simon they suddenly become wolves. He was a sophist, who appropriated public property.[2]
Simon and Theoros and Kleonymos, these men [are] perjurers.
Aristophanes [writes]: "if the thunderbolt strikes perjurers, how did it not blast
Simon or Kleonymos or Theoros? They are quintessential perjurers".[3]
*si/mwn, *si/mwnos: o)/noma ku/rion. kai\ paroimi/a: *si/mwnos a(rpaktikw/teros. *)aristofa/nhs: o(/tan i)/dwsi *si/mwna, lu/koi e)cai/fnhs gi/nontai. sofisth\s de\ h)=n, o(\s tw=n dhmosi/wn e)nosfi/zeto. *si/mwn kai\ *qe/wros kai\ *klew/numos, ou(=toi e)pi/orkoi. *)aristofa/nhs: ei)/per ba/llei tou\s e)pio/rkous o( kerauno/s, pw=s dh=t' ou)xi\ *si/mwn' e)ne/prhsen ou)de\ *klew/numon ou)de\ *qe/wron; kai/ toi sfo/dra g' ei)si\n e)pi/orkoi.
Notes:
[1] Apart from the specification of the genitive, added here, this reproduces exactly Harpokration (and
Photius) s.v. What prompted Harpok. to have such an entry is therefore unclear. Perhaps the named litigant in
Lysias 3, but there are several other possibilities.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Clouds 351-2, with comment from the
scholia there. (Not in the paroemiographers.)
[3]
Aristophanes,
Clouds 399-400 (loosely quoted: see web address 1), with comment from the
scholia there; cf.
kappa 1379.
Web address 1
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 19 December 2000@06:04:52.
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