Simonides, A Poet in Greece, borne in the yle called Cæa, who was the firsle that inuented the verses called Lytici, and was excellent in prouoking of teares, and in that kind of writing, there was in him a wonderful grace. It is written % Pausanias King of the Lacedemonians, at a banquet, desired instantly of him that he would then speake somthing notable, and that sauoured of wisedome. Simonides therat smyling, remember (sayde hee) that thou art a man. Paufanias tooke that skornefully, and esteemed it nothing. Afterwarde Pausanias being put in prison in Chalciœco, and there beeing famished ere hee dyed, remembred the saying of Simonides: and with a loude and lamentable voyce, sayde: O my friend of Cæos, thy wordes were of great importaunce, but I for mad piyde esteemed them nothing.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Sĭmōnĭdes, is, m., = *simwni/dhs, a celebrated lyric poet of Cos, Cic. Rep. 2, 10, 20; id. Tusc. 1, 42, 101; 1, 24, 59; id. N. D. 1, 22, 60; id. Div. 1, 27, 56; Quint. 10, 1, 64; 11, 2, 11 al.—Hence, Sĭmōnĭdēus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to simonides: lacrimae, i. e.