Σίμων
Simon
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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
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
Greek original · Adler’s text
Σίμων, Σίμωνος· ὄνομα κύριον. καὶ παροιμία· Σίμωνος ἁρπακτικώτερος. Ἀριστοφάνης· ὅταν ἴδωσι Σίμωνα, λύκοι ἐξαίφνης γίνονται. σοφιστὴς δὲ ἦν, ὃς τῶν δημοσίων ἐνοσφίζετο. Σίμων καὶ Θέωρος καὶ Κλεώνυμος, οὗτοι ἐπίορκοι. Ἀριστοφάνης· εἴπερ βάλλει τοὺς ἐπιόρκους ὁ κεραυνός, πῶς δῆτ' οὐχὶ Σίμων' ἐνέπρησεν οὐδὲ Κλεώνυμον οὐδὲ Θέωρον; καί τοι σφόδρα γ' εἰσὶν ἐπίορκοι.
Betacode
*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 (3)
- 1Apart 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. ↩
- 2Aristophanes, Clouds 351-2, with comment from the scholia there. (Not in the paroemiographers.) ↩
- 3Aristophanes, Clouds 399-400 (loosely quoted: see web address 1), with comment from the scholia there; cf. kappa 1379. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history6 revisions · last 24 Dec 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- more keywords; tweaks — David Whitehead
- augmented note and keywords — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords — David Whitehead
- added cross-reference — Catharine Roth
- added link, set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead