See also:

• SIMONIDES (or SEMONIDES) OF AMORGOS

SIMONIDES (or SEMONIDES) OF AMORGOS  , See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• IAMBIC

iambic poet, flourished in the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle of the 7th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century B.C . He was a native of See also:

• SAMOS

Samos, and derived his surname from having founded a See also:

• COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

colony in the neighbouring See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island of Amorgos . According to Suidas, besides two books of iambics, he wrote elegies, one of them a poem on the See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• HISTORY

history of the Samians . The See also:

• ELEGY

elegy included in the fragments (85) of See also:

• SIMONIDES (or SEMONIDES) OF AMORGOS

Simonides of See also:

• CEOS (Gr. Kiws, mod. Zea or Tzia)

Ceos is more probably by Simonides of Amorgos . We possess about See also:

• THIRTY

thirty fragments of his iambic poems, written in clear and vigorous Ionic, with much force and no little See also:

• HARMONY (Gr. dpµovia, a concord of musical sounds, dpA'ew to join; &plan midi (sc. TeXvil)

harmony of versification . With Simonides, as with See also:

• ARCHILOCHUS

Archilochus, the iambic is still the vehicle of See also:

• BITTER, KARL THEODORE FRANCIS (1867– )

bitter See also:

• SATIRE (Lat. satira, satura; see below)

satire, interchanging with See also:

• MELANCHOLY (Gr. µe)tayXotia, from µEtas, black, and Xotii, bile)

melancholy, but in Simonides the satire is rather See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general than individual . His " See also:

• PEDIGREE

Pedigree of See also:

• WOMEN

Women " may have been suggested by the beast See also:

• FABLE (Fr. fable, Lat. fabula)

fable, as we find it in See also:

• HESIOD

Hesiod and Archilochus; and as it recurs a century later in See also:

• PHOCYLIDES

Phocylides; it is clear at least that Simonides knew the See also:

• WORKS

works of the former . Simonides derives the dirty woman from a hog, the cunning from a See also:

• FOX
• FOX, C
• FOX, CHARLES JAMES (1749-1806)
• FOX, EDWARD (c. 1496-1538)
• FOX, GEORGE (1624-1691)
• FOX, RICHARD (c. 1448-1528)
• FOX, ROBERT WERE (1789—1877)
• FOX, SIR STEPHEN (1627–1716)
• FOX, SIR WILLIAM (1812-1893)

fox, the fussy from a See also:

• DOG

dog, the apathetic from See also:

• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

earth, the capricious from See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea-See also:

• WATER

water, the stubborn from an See also:

• ASS (O.E. assa; Lat. asinus)
• ASS, FEAST OF THE

ass, the incontinent from a See also:

• WEASEL (Putorius nivalis)

weasel, the proud from a high-bred See also:

• MARE

mare, the worst and ugliest from an See also:

• APE (Old Eng. ape; Dutch aap; Old Ger. a ffo; Welsh epa; Old Bohemian op; a word of uncertain origin, possibly an imitation of the animal's chatter)

ape, and the See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good woman from a See also:

• BEE (Sanskrit blza, AS. ben, Lat. apis)

bee . The See also:

• REMAINDER, REVERSION

remainder of the poem (96—118) is undoubtedly See also:

• SPURIOUS

spurious . There is much beauty and feeling in Simonides's description of the good woman . See Fragments in T . See also:

• BERGK, THEODOR (1812—1881)

Bergk, Poetae lyrici Graeci; See also:

• SEPARATE

separate See also:

• EDITIONS

editions by F .

T . See also:

• WELCKER, FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB (1784-1868)

Welcker (1835), and especially by P . Malusa 1900), with exhaustive introduction, bibliography and commentary .