Protagoras
   Part
 1 Intro|            as his thesis a poem of Simonides of Ceos, in which he professes
 2 Intro|        Prodicus, the countryman of Simonides, but apparently only with
 3 Intro|        Hard is it to be good:’ and Simonides, who was jealous of the
 4 Intro|       Socrates says of the poem of Simonides, is a most perfect piece
 5 Intro|          in defence of the poem of Simonides, after the manner of the
 6 Intro|            how the two passages of Simonides are to be reconciled. We
 7 Intro|        with the serious defence of Simonides. (6) the marked approval
 8 Intro|          is ‘really too bad,’ that Simonides uses the Lesbian (?) word, (
 9 Intro|          in this interpretation of Simonides Socrates is ‘fooling,’ how
10 Intro|          the ironical criticism of Simonides, and are conceived in a
11 Text |       poets, as Homer, Hesiod, and Simonides, some, of hierophants and
12 Text |           a passage of a poet. Now Simonides says to Scopas the son of
13 Text |      called him. Prodicus, I said, Simonides is a countryman of yours,
14 Text |     Protagoras will make an end of Simonides. Now is the time to rehabilitate
15 Text |           the time to rehabilitate Simonides, by the application of your
16 Text |      contradiction in the words of Simonides. And first of all I wish
17 Text |          replied Prodicus.~Did not Simonides first set forth, as his
18 Text |           Pittacus does not say as Simonides says, that hardly can a
19 Text |        they are not the same, then Simonides is not inconsistent with
20 Text |         date, and may be as old as Simonides or even older. Learned as
21 Text |       chalepon) in the sense which Simonides intended; and I must correct
22 Text |             evil. And I think that Simonides and his countrymen the Ceans,
23 Text |     questions about the dialect of Simonides. What did he mean, Prodicus,
24 Text |          and I know very well that Simonides in using the word ‘hard’
25 Text |            this was the meaning of Simonides, of which our friend Prodicus
26 Text |     maintain your thesis; for that Simonides could never have meant the
27 Text |           Prodicus would impute to Simonides a character of recklessness
28 Text |          to be the real meaning of Simonides in this poem, if you will
29 Text |         opinion about this poem of Simonides. There is a very ancient
30 Text |        Hard is it to be good.’ And Simonides, who was ambitious of the
31 Text |           I am speaking the truth. Simonides must have been a lunatic,
32 Text | observation, and quite unworthy of Simonides); but you must suppose him
33 Text |        Pittacus to be speaking and Simonides answering him): ‘O my friends,’
34 Text |        hard is it to be good,’ and Simonides answers, ‘In that, Pittacus,
35 Text |           has a similar drift, for Simonides was not so ignorant as to
36 Text |            against their will. And Simonides never says that he praises
37 Text |           own flesh and blood. And Simonides, as is probable, considered
38 Text |          take to be the meaning of Simonides in this poem.~Hippias said:


The Republic
   Book
39 1    |        Quite correct, Socrates, if Simonides is to be believed, said
40 1    |          of the argument, what did Simonides say, and according to you,
41 1    |      return? ~Certainly not. ~When Simonides said that the repayment
42 1    |         him-that is to say, evil. ~Simonides, then, after the manner
43 1    |          And so, you and Homer and Simonides are agreed that justice
44 1    |      affirmed to be the meaning of Simonides. ~Very true, he said; and
45 1    |        attributes such a saying to Simonides or Bias or Pittacus, or